Mastery Quotes:

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

topic: Heart, Consistency, Mastery

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

topic: Dna, Consistency, Mastery

- Sara Genn

topic: Joy, Shortcuts, Mastery

Play is your route to mastery.

- Sara Genn

topic: Play, Mastery

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

- Sarah Lewis

topic: World, Mastery, Labels

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

- Sarah Lewis

source: Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mastery, Pursuit

Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

- Sarah Lewis

topic: Mastery, Arriving, Reaching

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

- Sarah Manguso

source: Sarah Manguso (2012). “The Guardians: An Elegy”, p.37, Granta Books

topic: People, Empathy, Mastery

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

- Stephen Mitchell

source: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “A Thousand Names For Joy: How To Live In Harmony With The Way Things Are”, p.141, Random House

topic: Way, Mastery, Letting Things Go, Going With The Flow

I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.

- Steven Erikson

topic: Men, Mastery, Wizards

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

- Steven Pressfield

topic: Self, Long, Mastery, Self Mastery

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

- Stewart Emery

topic: Limits, Mastery, Consistently

It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

- Susan Fenimore Cooper

topic: Life And Death, Mastery, May

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

- Susan Orlean

topic: Writing, Mastery, Want, Tweak

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].

- Swami Vivekananda

topic: Mind, Facts, Mastery

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.

- Tariq Ramadan

topic: Giving, Mastery, Alive, Egoism

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

- Thorstein Veblen

source: Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.77, M.E. Sharpe

topic: Dog, Play, Mastery, Propensity, Affording

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Execution, Mastery, Days Of The Week

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

- Victor Davis Hanson

topic: Skills, Looks, Mastery

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.

- Walter F. Mondale

topic: Political, Today, Mastery, Modern Politics, Politics Today

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

- Walter Savage Landor

topic: Errors, Understanding, Mastery

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.

- Wassily Kandinsky

source: Wassily Kandinsky (1914). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.54, Courier Corporation

topic: Art, Goal, Mastery

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.

- Wilfred Owen

source: Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting"

topic: Missing, World, Mastery, Citadels

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

- Wilhelm Reich

topic: Mastery, Tails, Matter

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.

- William A. Henry III

source: William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.48, Anchor

topic: People, Mastery, Generations, Affirming

He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

- William Golding

topic: Exercise, Tides, Mastery

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

- Alice Schwarzer

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Acceptance, German Language, Mastery

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

- Allan Sekula

topic: Photography, Promise, Mastery

Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

- C.E. Morgan

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Choices, Style, Mastery, Lexicon, Rhetorical

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

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

source: George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

topic: Heart, Practice, Mastery

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

topic: Journey, Risk, Mastery

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

source: George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

topic: Journey, Firsts, Mastery

Practice is the path of mastery.

topic: Art, Feet, Mastery

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

topic: Practice, Mastery, Path

- Jeff Atwood

topic: Teaching, Mastery, Peers

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.

- T. K. V. Desikachar

topic: Yoga, Mind, Mastery, Day To Day Living

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

- Tian Dayton

topic: Doors, Understanding, Mastery, Understanding Others

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

- Richard Powers

topic: Forever, Mastery, Faces

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

- Edmund Blunden

source: Edmund Blunden (1930). “Leigh Hunt: a biography”, Archon Books

topic: Vision, Mastery, Tinkering

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

- Roger McDonald

topic: Sheep, Leader, Mastery

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

- Roger McDonald

topic: Success, Law, Mastery

Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

- Ron Kurtz

topic: Mindfulness, Mastery, Natural

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.

- Ronald Cunningham

topic: Water, Mastery, Arrogant

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.

- Roy H. Williams

topic: Preparation, Overcoming, Mastery

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.

- Ian Kershaw

source: Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

topic: Self, Mastery, Speech, Diffidence, Self Confident

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.

- James Gordon Lindsay

topic: Should Have, Mastery, Body, Parts Of The Body, Body Of Christ

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

- Kenny Werner

source: Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

topic: Thinking, Mastery, Capable

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Mastery, Environment

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Mother (1995). “Looking from Within”, p.151, Lotus Press

topic: Mastery, Detachment

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.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Political, Mastery, Hegemony

The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Hands, Principles, Mastery, Kvothe

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

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Destiny, Mastery, World

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

topic: Mistake, Achievement, Mastery

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Mistake, Mastery, Performances

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

topic: Hate, Way, Mastery

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Mastery

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

topic: Passion, Mind, Mastery

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

topic: Mastery, Lost, Term

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.282, Courier Corporation

topic: God, Grace, Mastery

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

- Tariq Ramadan

topic: Self, Crucible, Mastery

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.

- Cornel West

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Cornel West from Jun 20, 2012

topic: Civilization, Nihilism, Mastery, Natural Consequences

On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

- Corrie Ten Boom

source: Corrie ten Boom (2012). “A Prisoner and Yet...”, p.88, CLC Publications

topic: Jesus, Hands, Mastery, Loving Friends

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

- Amelia Barr

topic: Cheerful, Mastery, Trials

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

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

topic: Freedom, Giving, Mastery

Mastery passes often for egotism.

topic: Law, Giving, Mastery

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

topic: Mastery, Egotism

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

topic: Two, Soul, Mastery, Two Souls

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

topic: Taken, Mastery, Masters

- Margaret Mead

source: "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

topic: Technology, Temptation, Mastery

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

- Andres Segovia

topic: Mastery, May, Impossible

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

- Marianne Moore

source: Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.165, Penguin

topic: Mastery, Firsts, Made, Vague

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Progress, Mastery, Littles

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

- Gerhard Richter

source: Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.42, The Museum of Modern Art

topic: Style, Want, Mastery, Inconsistent

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Anxiety, Mastery, Panic

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Mastery, Levels, May, Ability To Speak

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

- Martin Heidegger

topic: Technology, Mastery, Humans

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

- Tom Peters

topic: Sweat, Mastery, Able, Beads

The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

- Arianna Huffington

source: "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Mother, Important, Mastery

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

- Mason Cooley

topic: Confusion, Mastery, Unhappiness

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.

- Twyla Tharp

source: Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

topic: May, Definitions, Mastery

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

- Austin Kleon

source: Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.197, Workman Publishing

topic: Mastery, Students, Push Yourself

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Mastery, Nine, Time Patience

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

- Vandana Shiva

source: Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

topic: Engineering, Mastery, Mindset, Biotech

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

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Over You, Mind, Mastery

He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

topic: Thoughtful, Mind, Mastery, True Person

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

- Robert Greene

source: Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

topic: Luck, Desire, Mastery, Deep Desire

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

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

source: Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.47, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Motivational, Roots, Mastery

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

source: FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 22, 2012

topic: Goal, Mastery, Action

Clarity proceeds Mastery!

topic: Success, Mastery, Mediocrity, Versus