Quotes About Mastery

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

There are very few great poets in the world.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

There comes a point in everybody's life where you either learn to handle things or you get handled.

It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.

I like people who have clarity about their work.

I own 170 and 155. These are my weight classes.

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

I know I can play good on clay.

I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

Collaboration is not a punchline... I only collaborate with the best in each category.

I have combinations, and I work on my combinations all the time.

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.