Quotes About Mastery

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

No joy could be greater, they knew, than that of being acknowledged a master, as he was. So he gave up trying to make himself understood and sat listening to them, without a word (79)

Yo presumí que una persona que podía especular de antemano sobre el giro que daría a sus arrebatos de ira podría, de proponérselo, dominar también esos arrebatos.

about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)

749Aurum potestas est

No person is free who is not master of himself.

In short, we do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it.

who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid.

I'll show you that I'm master.' —How will you do that? Zeus has set me free. Do you really suppose that he would allow his own son to be turned into a slave? You're master of my carcass, take that.

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

People who are ignorant of philosophy blame others for their own misfortunes. Those who are beginning to learn philosophy blame themselves. Those who have mastered philosophy blame no one.

Some things are within our power while others are not.

No man is free unless he is the master of himself.

Study, not in order to add anything to your knowledge, but to make your knowledge better.

Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.

No person is free who is not master of themselves.

I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.

No man can rob us of our Will—no man can lord it over that!

Some things are up to us, and some things are not up to us.

But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

PoÈ›i fi st?pân pe ceea ce gândeÈ™ti, dar niciodat? pe ceea ce simÈ›i.

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.