Mastery Quotations | Page 2

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Practice is the path of mastery.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

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

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

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.

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.

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

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.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

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.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact he disputes the mastery of the emp

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions

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.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

When you're really young, you're young for life.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.