Mastery Quotes - Page 3

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.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

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

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.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

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.

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

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

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

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.

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.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

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.

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

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

Play is your route to mastery.

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

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

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

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

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

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.