Mastery Quotes

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

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

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

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.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

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

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

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

If you honestly know how you help people, then you should become passionate about sharing it, spread the good news, give everyone a chance to share in the solutions that you can provide.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this.

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

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

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

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.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

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.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

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

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.

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.