Quotes About Mastery

Nesses estúdios decorria muita colaboração; conta-nos Vasari que quando, certo dia, Leonardo pintou um anjo numa obra de Verrocchio e se saiu melhor que o mestre, Verrocchio desistiu pura e simplesmente do pincel e deixou de pintar. Já fora ultrapassado.

He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.

Being smart is not enough to get away with a crime . . . you have to spend time getting good at it.

I took a moment just to process the creature's huge size.""Huh"", I managed, proving my mastery of articulation. Then it hit me. Not a thought; the dragon literally hit me, with a tail the size of a wagon.

It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one

Graft at your craft!

It doesn't matter what you do, just try to be the best at it

Your great causes, your wars, your struggle to save the world … Your end which justifies the means … Prick up your ears, Philippa. Can you hear those voices, that yowling? Those are cats fighting for a great cause. For indivisible mastery over a heap of rubbish. It's no joking matter—blood is being spilled and clumps of fur are flying. It's war. But I care incredibly little about either of these wars, the cats' or yours.

?le ci to idzie, Tzara. Nie umiesz. ?eby kogo? dobrze zniewa?y?, nie wystarczy przemo?ne pragnienie, entuzjazm ani zapa?. Konieczny jest warsztat.

Dac? È™tii s? lupÈ›i cu ceva, nu te mai însp?imânt?

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

You can't give yourself fully to someone else as long as you are mastered by something else.

Narrow the Focus. By that I mean you shouldn't try to do everything; you should do a few things well.

Toast was one of the few things he could cook well.

If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.

The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

I'll just say that there are times when TV shows, like 'The Honeymooners' or 'I Love Lucy' or something, where they're totally in their stride, and this thing happens, where you can tell they got everything they wanted. And it starts to look a little relaxed. No criticism to the shows whatsoever; these people are geniuses.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.