"If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction."

--

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

George Leonard

#Journey Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Mastery Quotes

“Everyone is going to be talking about Chelsea and Liverpool but the others are very tough teams.”
“Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.”
“Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.”
“The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.”
“History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.”
“Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.”
“Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.”
“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”

You may also like: