Mastery Quotes

“All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.”

“Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.”

“The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.”

“Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.”

“It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.”

“A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.”

“Repetition is the mother of skill.”

“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.”

“If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.”

“Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.”

“Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.”

“All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.”

“In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.”

“Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.”

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

“The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.”

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

“Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

“The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.”

“Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.”

“He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.”

“He who conquers self conquers all.”