Mastery Quotes

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

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

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.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

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

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

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

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

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

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

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.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

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

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

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

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.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

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

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].

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

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.

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.