Quotes About Mastery

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Jane Austen mastered her unscrupulous charmers before she did her heroes.

I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.

Control. Master.

Do not follow the ancient masters, seek what they sought." However strong his opinions and theories, Bash?'s primary allegiance was to the living moment and its accurate, full-hearted presentation. Of the formal requirements of haiku, he said, "If you have three or four, even five or seven extra syllables but the poem still sounds good, don't worry about it. But if one syllable stops the tongue, look at it hard.

Under his shock of grey hair their father's face looked as if it had been carved out of wood by a man who had not yet mastered the tools for delicate work.

She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to her, and her fantastically accurate shot-placing was certainly a study in composition.

All right, Spock, I'll bite: why would she take up saber, quarterstaff and eating with chopsticks?" "To extend her reach.

All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.

Joskus minua ihan nolottaa, miten edellä olen muita.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

As it relates to healing the wounds of trauma, it is a journey from helplessness (which is the essence of trauma) to mastery.

How long someone's been doing it is overrated. What matters is how well they've been doing it.

We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.

The horn . . . is the joint hardest instrument to learn. . . . (The other is the oboe).

After observing O Sensei, the founder of Aikido, sparring with an accomplished fighter, a young student said to the master, "You never lose your balance. What is your secret?" "You are wrong," O Sensei replied. "I am constantly losing my balance. My skill lies in my ability to regain it.

I will continue to study at your feet, Master. I will learn from your wisdom. I will discover your secrets, unlocking them one by one until everything you know—all your knowledge and all your power—is mine. And once you are no longer of use to me, I will destroy you. One day I will surpass you. And on that day I will kill you, Lord Bane. But that day is not today.

One day I will surpass you," Zannah warned him. "And on that day I will kill you, Lord Bane. But that day is not today.

Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within (...)

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available

nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.

A]rt can never give the rules that make an art.