Quotes about Mastery

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Votes: 5

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Votes: 4

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Votes: 4

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill. Votes: 4

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. Votes: 4

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Votes: 4

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. Votes: 4

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Clarity proceeds Mastery! Votes: 3

Mastery passes often for egotism. Votes: 3

Mastery is revealed in limitation. Votes: 3

Mastery is often taken for egotism. Votes: 3

Mastery of language affords remarkable power. Votes: 3

Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness. Votes: 3

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. Votes: 3

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience Votes: 3

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving. Votes: 3

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. Votes: 3

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits. Votes: 3

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense. Votes: 3

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING. Votes: 3

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path. Votes: 3

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. Votes: 3

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. Votes: 3

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom. Votes: 3

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. Votes: 3

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure. Votes: 3

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. Votes: 3

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. Votes: 3

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired. Votes: 3

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally. Votes: 3

Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Votes: 3

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. Votes: 3

Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end. Votes: 3

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. Votes: 3

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. Votes: 3

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing. Votes: 3

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. Votes: 3

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within. Votes: 3

You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt! Votes: 3

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind. Votes: 3

Mastery occurs when you remove all the filters, masks, and obstacles so that you may more clearly see and connect to your power within-your divinity, your soul. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it. Votes: 3

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Mastery is not dispensed on the podium of quitters; but purchased on the counter of consistent application of self-willing can do spirit and an outstanding endurance to persevere with persistent endurance till the end! Votes: 3

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese? Votes: 3

Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments? Votes: 3

The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers! Votes: 3

It's easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you're making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don't yet see the light. Votes: 3

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem. Votes: 3

To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination. Votes: 3

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes. Votes: 3

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery Votes: 2

Real living is living for others. Votes: 2

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Votes: 2

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. Votes: 2

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. Votes: 2

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery Votes: 2

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. Votes: 2

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. Votes: 2

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Votes: 2

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. Votes: 2

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. Votes: 2

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Votes: 2

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery. Votes: 2

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance. Votes: 2

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. Votes: 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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. Votes: 2

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. Votes: 2

Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. Votes: 2

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image Votes: 2

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment. Votes: 2

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical. Votes: 2

The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power. Votes: 2

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. Votes: 2

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. Votes: 2

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world. Votes: 2

Clarity breeds mastery. Votes: 0

Play is your route to mastery. Votes: 0

Practice is the path of mastery. Votes: 0

Consistency is the DNA of mastery Votes: 0

Detachment is the beginning of mastery. Votes: 0

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery. Votes: 0

After mastery comes artistry and not before. Votes: 0

At the heart of mastery lives consistency Votes: 0

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery. Votes: 0

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost, Votes: 0

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery. Votes: 0

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Votes: 0

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately Votes: 0

Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability. Votes: 0

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery. Votes: 0

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life. Votes: 0

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. Votes: 0

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted Votes: 0

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others. Votes: 0

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose! Votes: 0

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times. Votes: 0

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else. Votes: 0

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery. Votes: 0

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery. Votes: 0

Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand Votes: 0

Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery. Votes: 0

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity. Votes: 0

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form Votes: 0

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. Votes: 0

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Votes: 0

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. Votes: 0

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way. Votes: 0

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Votes: 0

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety. Votes: 0

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. Votes: 0

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. Votes: 0

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery. Votes: 0

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible. Votes: 0

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint. Votes: 0

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation. Votes: 0

The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness. Votes: 0

Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day. Votes: 0

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. Votes: 0

Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take. Votes: 0

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. Votes: 0

We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts. Votes: 0

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. Votes: 0

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. Votes: 0

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. Votes: 0

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery. Votes: 0

Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery. Votes: 0

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear. Votes: 0

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. Votes: 0

Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world. Votes: 0

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. Votes: 0

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself. Votes: 0

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property. Votes: 0

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery. Votes: 0

Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally. Votes: 0

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action. Votes: 0

Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this! Votes: 0

It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be. Votes: 0

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. Votes: 0

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery. Votes: 0

The whole creation is so tenderly balanced - this manifests the mastery of the Creator. Votes: 0

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! Votes: 0

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. Votes: 0

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body. Votes: 0

Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery. Votes: 0

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement Votes: 0

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else. Votes: 0

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little. Votes: 0

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life. Votes: 0

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. Votes: 0

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. Votes: 0

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. Votes: 0

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him. Votes: 0

The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path. Votes: 0

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. Votes: 0

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination. Votes: 0

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again. Votes: 0

Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field. Votes: 0

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it. Votes: 0

Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery. Votes: 0

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.' Votes: 0

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. Votes: 0

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. Votes: 0

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. Votes: 0

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. Votes: 0

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control Votes: 0

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. Votes: 0

No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs! Votes: 0

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work' Votes: 0

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery. Votes: 0

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world. Votes: 0

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. Votes: 0

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. Votes: 0

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. Votes: 0

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. Votes: 0

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god. Votes: 0

I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one Votes: 0

My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery. Votes: 0

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject. Votes: 0

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. Votes: 0

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body. Votes: 0

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. Votes: 0

I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. Votes: 0

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. Votes: 0

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. Votes: 0

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law. Votes: 0

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance. Votes: 0

The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything. Votes: 0

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. Votes: 0

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. Votes: 0

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? Votes: 0

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction. Votes: 0

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. Votes: 0

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. Votes: 0

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world. Votes: 0

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer. Votes: 0

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion? Votes: 0

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. Votes: 0

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. Votes: 0

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both. Votes: 0

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. Votes: 0

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. Votes: 0

Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. Votes: 0

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. Votes: 0

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft. Votes: 0

I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature. Votes: 0

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. Votes: 0

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted. Votes: 0

You cannot attain #"Ž mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do Votes: 0

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. Votes: 0

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form. Votes: 0

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it. Votes: 0

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill. Votes: 0

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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?". Votes: 0

Ripen your mind to the glorious history of the ages and revel in your mastery as today's youth shall look upon you as a sage. Votes: 0

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat. Votes: 0

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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]. Votes: 0

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night. Votes: 0

All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. Votes: 0

The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. Votes: 0

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling. Votes: 0

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words. Votes: 0

Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace. Votes: 0

You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others. Votes: 0

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind. Votes: 0

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. Votes: 0

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way. Votes: 0

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped. Votes: 0

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart. Votes: 0

Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought. Votes: 0

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. Votes: 0

For many years eagerly thought by your enemy to destroying your life, it's all one second of mastery for you to save your life from his deadly plans, for you to survive. Votes: 0

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe. Votes: 0

Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery. Votes: 0

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery. Votes: 0

... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment." Votes: 0

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society. Votes: 0

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558 Votes: 0

‎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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals. Votes: 0

From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96. Votes: 0

Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance. Votes: 0

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. Votes: 0

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.' Votes: 0

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another. Votes: 0

A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others. Votes: 0