Quotes About Mastery

Se io studiassi di più l'italiano, lo parlerei meglio.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.

The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

He saw a world he had not seen before; a world made not for mastery but for living. Once seen it was a very simple thing to understand. The wonder was that he had been so blind.

Simon drove as if he knew something about physics that Einstein hadn't thought of and God never intended. If nature abhorred a vacuum, Simon positively loathed one, and rushed to fill in the tiniest gap in the heavy flow of speeding traffic. He passed on the right, left, center, and all variations in between, and the Keble responded as if involved in some kind of blood compact with its human master.

Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skilful than yesterday, more skilful than today. This is never-ending.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.