Mastery Quotes - Page 6

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.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

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

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

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

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.

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.

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.

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.

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

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

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.

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

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.

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.

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

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