Quotes About Mastery

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Anyone who is good at something makes it look easy. That does not mean it is.

You have to follow your intuition. That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

That is what expertise is: all the experience, the cases won and lost, the painful mistakes, all the technical details you learn by rote repetition, over time these things leave you with an instinctive sense of your craft. A "gut" for it.

It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.

Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments.

The people we admire the most are rooted in nature, but have surpassed nature.

We're all designers now. It's time to get good at it.

To paraphrase one of my favorite math professors: The difference between great artists, and artists who are not so great, is that great artists think deeply about simple things.

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.

It is ironic that a business in which the serving of clients depends so heavily on interpersonal psychology should be peopled with those who believe in the exclusive power of technical mastery. And

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

He understood that the key to success, the secret to it, was the mastery of the grunt work, all the little details.

If you have to write it down, you don't know it well enough

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Don't work for your mind, make your mind work for you.

The System of Motorcycle Control (the British System) is the basis for what is called roadcraft, the science of becoming an accomplished motorcyclist. The implication is that motorcycling is a craft worthy of mastering, not simply a fun thing you attempt by bump and feel.

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.