Mastery Quotes

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.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

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.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.

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.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.

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

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

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

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

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

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

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

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

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.

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