Mastery Quotes - Page 5

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

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

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.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

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.

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.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

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.

Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

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

Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.