Quotes About Mastery

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.