Quotes about Mastery

Practice is the key to mastering any skill.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

Do what the top people do.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.