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Quotes About Mastery

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.
~ Avital Ronell
Every master was once a disaster.
~ T. Harv Eker
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
~ Harry S. Truman
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.
~ Carl Mydans
Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
~ Raph Koster
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
~ Babe Ruth
Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing
~ Robert Hubner
Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.
~ Izaak Walton
I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.
~ Bob Proctor
Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.
~ Edgar Alwin Payne
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.
~ Alexander Kotov
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
~ Fred Brooks
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
~ Tenzin Palmo
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
~ Nathanael Emmons
The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
~ Joshua Foer
Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.
~ Robin Sharma
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
~ Alain de Botton
I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
~ Sarah Wayne Callies
Lines are very difficult to learn.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
~ Tim Ferriss
When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain.... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.
~ Siddharth Katragadda