Quotes About Mastery

You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies' heart. Mind and arrow must become one.

What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration—what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.

Words aren't wasted, but sometimes they're just practice.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

History is humankind trying to get a grip.

Any physical action, properly studied and practiced, could no doubt be accomplished with a reasonable amount of skill, if not flair.

Frank's French was worse than no French at all, like listening to someone attack the language with a hatchet.

People doing dangerous things make mistakes when they're first learning it, and then when they've known it forever.

Great men are excellent topics of conversation, but the superior man, the superior men, the masters, the universal spirits on horseback, have to stop and search their memories merely to know who these so-called great men might be. And so the great man is left with the crowd, the worthless majority...for his admirers.

I know, baby girl, I'm that good.

Power is where you find it, where you seize it, how you wield it.

I'lll command you, but you'll rule me.

Plus, she had centuries of sexual experience over this hard-up virgin novice. Though she'd never take it too far, she could tempt him up to a point. She'd run circles around him, wrapping him around her little finger.

Their mastery of technology was their greatest strength. But their utter reliance on it was, ironically, their greatest weakness.

One who is Master of himself is always a King, if only to himself.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

THE ART OF PEACE is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

I respect what I do deeply. I don't get nervous to the point of fear.

After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.

To seize control over the laws of Mother Nature one must attain self-mastery.

You're afraid of it because it's stronger than you, you hate it because you're afraid of it, you love it because you can't master it. You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.