Mastery Quotes

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

It took me a lifetime.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.

Play is your route to mastery.

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

Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

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

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

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

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

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying 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 of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

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.

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

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

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

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

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

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

With age, art and life become one.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

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.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

Practice is the path of mastery.

At the heart of mastery lives consistency

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

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.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

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.

Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

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