Quotes About Mastery

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

A great painting is a great painting.

If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, you see something different - a different attitude or brushstroke. 'Hamlet' is like an entire gallery of old masters.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

I want to be the best in life. In all parts in life, not just basketball.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.

Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

Assembly level programming] kind of still separates the chest hair—gender-independent—programmers from those who don't quite have it. — Brendan Eich

The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven't seen very good programmers who don't spend a lot of time programming. If I don't program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. - Joe Armstrong

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

Go has been known as one of the "Four Great Accomplishments" that any cultured person should master. The other three are painting, music, and calligraphy.

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

From this humiliating self-estimate (of cowardice) Gandhi escaped by substituting for the Englishman's courage, which begins in self-assertion and proceeds to physical mastery, the courage which begins with self-control and proceeds to the nonviolent affirmation of truth.