Quotes About Mastery

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Power is not happiness.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

People enjoy doing what they do best.

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.