Quotes About Mastery

Mastery. The right game establishes an optimal level of difficulty.

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

Confidence comes with mastery, and the combination enables me to reach new heights.

She was apt at hunting, a naturally trained bird of prey who would beat the game and always bring it back to the hunter. And speaking of the devil Ã¢â'¬Â¦ It

He whom one awaits is, because he is expected, already present, already master.

Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

The world of the sorcerer's apprentice – a world without an 'off' switch? Is that the world we inhabit?

In virtually all areas of learning, you build better mastery when you use testing as a tool to identify and bring up your areas of weakness.

Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

By massed practice we mean the single-minded, rapid-fire repetition of something you're trying to burn into memory, the "practice-practice-practice" of conventional wisdom. Cramming for exams is an example. Rereading and massed practice give rise to feelings of fluency that are taken to be signs of mastery, but for true mastery or durability these strategies are largely a waste of time.

It's one thing to feel confident of your knowledge; it's something else to demonstrate mastery. Testing is not only a powerful learning strategy, it is a potent reality check on the accuracy of your own judgment of what you know how to do. When confidence is based on repeated performance, demonstrated through testing that simulates real-world conditions, you can lean into it.

retrieval from short-term memory is an ineffective learning strategy and that errors are an integral part of striving to increase one's mastery over new material.

a failure to know the areas where their learning is weak—that is, where they need to do more work to bring up their knowledge—and a preference for study methods that create a false sense of mastery.11

The illusion of mastery is an example of poor metacognition: what we know about what we know. Being accurate in your judgment of what you know and don't know is critical for decision making.

the more effort required to retrieve (or, in effect, relearn) something, the better you learn it.

When Michelangelo finally completed painting over 400 life size figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he is reported to have written, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.