Quotes About Mastery

Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Who was the best pilot I ever saw? You're lookin' at 'im.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.