Quotes About Mastery

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.

I'm an extra dark black belt in ping pong.

You have to put the extra hours in if you're not up to scratch with everyone else.

Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.

I want to try and get better in every facet of the game.

You fake something until you're good at it.

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

Through the regular season, if you get really good at what you do, teams will have a hard time adjusting to you.

Don't matter if I am playing on special teams, don't matter if I am playing linebacker: I want to be the best at what I am doing.

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

In futsal, I picked up specific technical skills.

Well, all baking is a technical challenge as far as I'm concerned.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.

You have to be very specific on the technical part of the acting.

Yes, I'm known as the most technical fighter in the world, and I'm going to keep that as my brand.