Mastery Quotes

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.

Clarity breeds mastery.

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.

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.

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

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

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.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this!

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take.

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.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day.

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

... 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.

Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

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

The future is a fabulous place to bury your success.

Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible.