Quotes About Mastery

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it," Doc said.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

A teacher (a good teacher) is composed of molecules of education and intelligence, bonded together by patience and passion.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.