Mastery famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
-- A.C. Grayling -
The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.
-- Amelia Barr -
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form
-- Andrew Loomis -
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
-- Antony Hegarty -
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
-- Aristippus -
You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
-- Austin Kleon -
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
-- Bill Crawford -
There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
-- Bono -
Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
-- Brian Tracy -
Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.
-- Brian Tracy -
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
-- Bruce Lee -
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
-- Bruce Lee -
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
-- Bruce Lee -
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
-- Dan Millman -
I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.
-- Deepak Chopra -
From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.
-- Dominicus Corea -
If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
-- Emile Coue -
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
-- Ernst Cassirer -
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.
-- Eugen Herrigel -
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.
-- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky -
My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.
-- Fedor Emelianenko -
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
-- Frances E. Willard -
Mastery of language affords remarkable power.
-- Frantz Fanon -
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
-- Frederick Soddy -
To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling -
Mastery is revealed in limitation.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling -
It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'
-- Galina Ulanova -
By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.
-- Garry Kasparov -
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
-- George Eliot -
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
-- Gerald May -
A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.
-- Gogen Yamaguchi -
And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
-- Gordon Parks -
The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.
-- Goswami Kriyananda -
After mastery comes artistry and not before.
-- Gregory Bateson -
Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
-- Gretchen Rubin -
Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.
-- Harold Sherman -
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
-- Henri Matisse -
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
-- Ice T -
I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.
-- J. M. W. Turner -
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
-- Jaimal Yogis -
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
-- James Allen -
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
-- James Russell Lowell -
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!
-- Jennifer Lacy -
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.
-- Jenny Offill -
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
-- Joan Didion -
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.
-- Joe Hyams -
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
-- John Buchan -
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
-- John Norman -
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
-- John Paul Jones -
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.
-- Joseph Pilates -
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
-- Julia Cameron -
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.
-- Kate Millett -
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.
-- Kató Lomb -
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
-- Kenneth Goldsmith -
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
-- Kent Nerburn -
The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.
-- Lewis Henry Morgan -
One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
-- Man Ray -
One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.
-- Margaret Cho -
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
-- Mark Twain -
Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
-- Mary Balogh -
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
-- Michael J. Gelb -
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
-- Michelangelo -
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
-- Mikhail Botvinnik -
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.
-- Miyamoto Musashi -
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
-- Muriel Barbery -
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
-- Ngaio Marsh -
... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.
-- Ninian Stephen -
It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.
-- Oswald Chambers -
Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.
-- Peter Ralston -
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
-- Peter Senge -
It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.
-- Pope Sixtus V -
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr -
The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.
-- Richard Strozzi-Heckler -
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
-- Robert Greene -
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
-- Robert Schumann -
Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.
-- Sara Genn -
Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'
-- Sarah Lewis -
The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,
-- Sarah Lewis -
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.
-- Sarah Lewis -
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
-- Sarah Manguso -
True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
-- Stephen Mitchell -
I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.
-- Steven Erikson -
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
-- Steven Pressfield
