Quotes About Mastery

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

Every man loves what he is good at.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

I am The Game and I am that damn good!

Run from being good. Chase being great.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great.

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

The good teams are good at what they do.

The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.