Quotes About Mastery

My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let the Master Storyteller do the writing.

Nabir nodded. "What's first?" "Footwork." "Footwork! But I learned footwork nearly two years ago!" "Didn't learn much, did you?" Then, more kindly, "Or maybe you've just forgotten." It did exactly as I expected. It shut the boy up.

when people dedicate their lives to one thing that they really, really love and learn a lot about, amazing things can happen.

No, I'm gonna get it. Just give me a second. I'm gonna master it just like I mastered the other kind of French. - He winks at me.

something I've never managed to quite get the hang of.

Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?

You only know of you can do something if you keep doing it.

The bona fide artist must be governed as little as possible by law-governed nature, the material encountered. This can lead to attempts to escape, or direct attention away from, all things concrete and finite, but much commoner in modernity has been a conception of the artist as one who masters and controls, bends the material to predetermined purposes.

Riding is about bending it to your will, and public riding is to demonstrate that authority.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before. And he's done it more times than anyone else.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

The eightfold path of what a witch must master to be a powerful witch—that's the symbol of Denny's.

First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if I am in the mood may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art.

Ma, oltre a conoscere teoria e pratica, c'è un terzo fattore necessario per diventare maestro in qualunque arte: non deve esserci niente al mondo di più importante.

Se alguém quer tomar-se mestre em alguma arte, deve ter a vida inteira devotada a ela, ou pelo menos relacionada com ela. A própria pessoa se toma um instrumento para a prática da arte e deve ser conservada em condições adequadas, de acordo com as funções específicas que tem a desempenhar.

Antes de tudo, a prática de uma arte exige disciplina. Nunca serei bom em coisa alguma, se não a fizer de modo disciplinado; tudo que eu só puder fazer quando "estiver disposto" pode ser uma diversão bonita ou aprazível, mas nunca me tornarei mestre nessa arte.

tornar-se consciente de que o amor é uma arte, assim como viver é uma arte; se quisermos aprender como se ama, devemos proceder do mesmo modo por que agiríamos se quiséssemos aprender qualquer outra arte, seja a música, a pintura, a carpintaria, ou a arte da medicina ou da engenharia

Holmes was testing his power to bend the lives of people.

On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme," meaning, essentially, "One leads by calm.

On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme