Quotes About Mastery

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

You can only fight the way you practice

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.