Quotes About Mastery

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.

I come from one of the great coaches - Matt Hume, Brad Kertson - and my skill set is well-rounded.

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

You practice something enough, it becomes second nature.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Learn by practice.

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I used to think of exhibitions as being practice but they are not.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

Practice makes permanent.