Quotes About Mastery

When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.

I want to be an all-around basketball player.

I'm not playing this game just to be a good basketball player. I want to be one of the greatest to ever play.

I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.

I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.

I love to watch Rohit Sharma bat.

I want to play well; only then can I be happy.

I dunno - there's always a beast that comes out whenever I want it to... I can control the beast and everything, but it comes out when I want to.

The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.

I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

Work on not becoming good but excellent.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

I'm about being the best.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

The WBC title belongs to me.

Many traumatized people expose themselves, seemingly compulsively, to situations reminiscent of the original trauma….Freud thought the aim of repetition was to gain mastery, but clinical experience has shown that this rarely happens; instead, repetition causes further suffering for the victims or for people in their surroundings. In

I love the way you talk. You just let it flow from you as if you own all the words in the world. They're your personal property and you make them dance for you.

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they man.

The wolf legends demanded immediate revenge. Groups of colonists entered the forest, killed the predators, and restored their mastery over nature in a day… the legends offered a quick solution: regeneration through violence

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.