Quotes About Mastery

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.

Jika kau mengulangi berbagai latihan dengan susah payah dan mendapatkan manfaat disiplin dalam praktik serta latihan, tindakan akan ada dalam tubuh serta kakimu, bukan pikiranmu. Dengan menjaga jarak dari latihan, kau tidak akan melawannya, dan kau akan melakukan setiap teknik dengan bebas. Pada titik ini, kau tidak akan tahu di mana pikiranmu berada, dan tak ada iblis atau pun kekuatan suci yang mampu menemukannya.

I'm still learning my craft.

The pursuit of perfection required rigor and discipline.

doing things well is generally more important than doing them quickly.

Learn to respect a craftsman's talent, to realize that a task done well seems easy but is terribly difficult.

Anyway, that's why you do it. Not to be famous, just to be good. To do good work. Find the thing you really love doing, and do it to the best of your ability.

Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

Because fear is the basis of all inhibitions, mastery over fear means the unblocking of whole avenues of life experience that previously had been avoided.

intensity of competence that crowds the throat with joy.

It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. ZEN SAYING

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

After just three days, the system so mastered the game that it was able to beat the prior version of AlphaGo a hundred games out of a hundred.

Yet about an AlphaGo move that left some commenters literally speechless, one go master, Fan Hui, said, "It's not a human move. I've never seen a human play this move." Then, softly, "So beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.

Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious.

I am all styles yet I am no style," said Bruce Lee.

His level of experience is nearly transcendent.

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.

The key is in the craft.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.