Quotes about Mastery
Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.
— George Eliot
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.
— Brian Tracy
Excellence is not an act, but habit.
— Aristotle
Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.
— Aristotle
For the love of his art
— Arthur Conan Doyle
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
— John Milton
The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
— John Piper
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).
— John Piper
Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.
— John Piper
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
— Christopher Hitchens
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
— Steven Pressfield