Mastery Quotes - Page 4

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

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

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

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

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

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

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

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

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.

If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

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.

With age, art and life become one.

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

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

Practice is the path of mastery.

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

At the heart of mastery lives consistency

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.