Quotes About Mastery

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

The game has slowed down for me. It's so much easier than it was. I feel like I see things better, and I can take advantage of what I see.

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.

It takes a lifetime to master one dance form.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

I still don't know why batsmen are taking so much time to figure me out.

Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

If anything, you just let your racket talk - there's no reason for you to talk if your racket can.

You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

We may be able to begin tennis instruction or piano lessons by dint of will, but we will not keep at them for long without joy. In fact, the only reason we can begin is because we know that joy is the end result. That is what sustains all novices; they know there is a sense of pleasure, enjoyment, joy in mastery.

Pursue those few things where you are amazingly better than others and that you enjoy most.

There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.