Quotes About Mastery

Another aspect of that legacy was the buoyant optimism in the schools. All the masters shared the view that man, even in his fallen state, was 'capable of the fullest intellectual and spiritual enlargement', that the universe was ordered and therefore accessible to rational inquiry, and that man's mastery of his environment through his intellect, cumulative knowledge and experience was possible.22 Outside

Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes.

Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating in his time, and had the basics down pat.

It's an easy thing to steal, any jerk could do it, but to steal and not get caught, ever, that's something else. That's something you have to train for. And to learn it properly takes years," Richard later said.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

an authentic personal style cannot be achieved without a solid technique at its base.

That's going to take a box of tools you neither own nor know how to use.

He that would govern others, first should beThe master of himself.

The union of altitude and solitude fills me with an arrogant sense of ownership.

I limiti, le trappole, le impossibilità mi sono necessari, vado loro incontro ogni giorno. Ritengo che la frusta sia necessaria, a condizione che a maneggiarla sia l'allievo, non il maestro.

Everything we are given or learn or possess in any real sense - - the ability to play Beethoven sonata, write books, understand the principles of physics – is intended for one thing: to draw us closer to our selves.

Dying is the art we have to master, it seems to say— not death; late love settles into us as spring romances never could.

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

'Buena Vista Social Club' is a great song and a difficult tune to play.

I just need to know my technique and visualize it.

You can visualize, and you can try to trick yourself into thinking a certain way. There's all kinds of things you can do to try to get in the right spot mentally. But at the end of the day, to have real confidence, you've got to be doing good at your craft.

If you see a credit with just my name on it, that means I write absolutely everything: rhythm guitar parts, guitar melodies, vocal melodies... absolutely everything, really.

I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.