Quotes About Mastery

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Knowledge must become capability.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Obsesionado por el conocimiento como medio para conceguir el poder

Obsesionado por el conocimiento como medio para conseguir el poder

Set the bar high. Resist the easy button. Choose "mastery" over "easy" and know that great accomplishments don't come from low expectations.

Benjamin Franklin wrote: "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."40

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

By the work one knows the workmen.

By the work one knows the workman.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze.

It was exciting for him to be good at something after a lifetime of mediocrity in Tamaulipas.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.

We've all got our own areas of expertise.