Quotes About Mastery

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

This was the domain established in less than twenty years by the young man of promise. Then he had had almost nothing over which his fingers might close with a sense of possession, but because the lack had stirred no anxious irritation in him, all these things had now come securely into his grasp.

a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a 'function', one cog in a machine.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

Much of ancient mythology is in fact a legal contract in which humans promise everlasting devotion to the gods in exchange for mastery over plants and animals

To the best of our knowledge, only Sapiens can cooperate in very flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. This concrete capability – rather than an eternal soul or some unique kind of consciousness – explains our mastery of planet Earth.

Can you guess how long it took AlphaZero to learn chess from scratch, prepare for the match against Stockfish, and develop its genius instincts? Four hours.

Ancient hunter-gatherers mastered a very wide variety of skills in order to survive, which is why it would be immensely difficult to design a robotic hunter-gatherer.

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mastered the true nature of fate does not labor over what knowledge cannot change.

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

out from under it. "We never do anything well 'til we cease to think about the manner of doing it." —William Hazlitt

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

Mastery is more than the co-ordination of muscle and bone. It is about bringing the whole of us to what we do

Excellence is not a history, but a habit.

Nothing gets easier but our abilities get better.

I also juggle," he said in a grave tone, "and am quite adept with a deck of cards.

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

Ruling the world is child's play. To truly rule your soul is like ruling creation. It is above even the gods.

Great poets are great copy editors.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.