Quotes About Mastery

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

Aprendió el arte vagabundo de los troperos. Aprendió el otro, más difícil, de mandar hombres; ambos lo ayudaron a ser un buen ladrón de hacienda.

in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

The great tea masters were concerned to make of the divine wonder an experienced moment; then out of the teahouse the influence was carried into the home; and out of the home distilled into the nation. During the long and peaceful Tokugawa period (1603-1868), before the arrival of Commodore Perry in 1854, the texture of Japanese life became so imbued with significant formalization that existence to the slightest detail was a conscious expression of eternity, the landscape itself a shrine. p144

Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.

Absolute power corrupts, and power corrupts absolutely

To be able to do and to abstain from doing, is to be twice able.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est!

Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.

In order to have more, you have to master what you have. You can't be fruitful until you are seedful" – T. E. Jakes

I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

German are Rulers, not to be Rule.

I think it's nice if someone respects whatever their endeavor is, whether it's dance or art or stand-up comedy, to not assume that they're gonna be an overnight sensation, that it's this great craft that takes a lot of hard work to get good at.

Once you get past 100, it is all about not making a mistake.

Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.

Pep Guardiola tactically brings a gift that is second to none in the world.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

I want to be perfect at everything, knowing I'll never be perfect at it, but that's my goal.

In a perfect world, I would love to be great at everything.