Quotes About Mastery

Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

As people do a task, they improve at it.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.

Someone like Allan Holdsworth sometimes plays the wackiest things, but does it with panache, such taste.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don't teach. Look at Valery Gergiev - what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn't work.

If a caddy can help you, you don't know how to play golf. —DAN JENKINS

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

The development of skills is the meat of learning. The imparting of skills is the meat of teaching,

Things mechanical are like the ladies,' continued Toby. 'You need to understand their ways. If you understand them, they'll do what you want from the start. If you don't, they've got you. And then God help you.

The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

You spread yourself out too thin, my son. A man who can do everything can do nothing. We specialize in our country. I hire men who can do only one thing, and do that thing better than anybody else.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.