Quotes About Mastery

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Learn, relearn and outlearn.

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

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Whatever you do, do it well.

I learned all about life with a ball at my feet

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life

Complete knowledge of any alien physiology could be obtained within minutes by Educator Tape, but the skill to use that knowledge—especially in surgery—came only with time.

This is what happens, perhaps, if you have been studying something so long that you can tell one sea anemone from another in an instant, could have picked out any denizen of those tidal pools from a lineup if it had committed a crime.

He was Control, and he was in control.

The research on the importance of practice was made famous by Malcolm Gladwell (2008) when he argued that ten thousand hours of practice are necessary to become an expert in a field.

every Toyota team member goes through a basic set of development steps at each stage of her development, following the process of basic learning by copying exactly (shu), mastering the basics so that they become second nature (ha), and becoming so masterful at the basics that she can go beyond these and improvise (ri).

When you learn to consciously master the energetic realm, believe in the not yet seen, and stay in your highest frequency, you harness your innate power to create the reality you desire.

Der Trick besteht darin, den Anfänger weiterhin neben dem Experten bestehen zu lassen.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

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It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

Jameson shrugged. "What can I say? I really am just that good.

Though they hadn't posted grades yet, she knew she'd aced all the classes, even if they had been as boring as shit.

I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I've already mastered the art.

There's an art in every labour.