Mastery Quotes

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

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

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

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

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

Repetition is the mother of skill.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

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.

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

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

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

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

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

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.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.