Quotes About Mastery

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

Good enough is never good enough.