Quotes about Mastery

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

God is separate from nature, and nature is condemned of God. It's right there in Genesis: we are to be the masters of the world. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

Not only did I play at a high level, I learned that personal discipline is the indispensable key for accomplishing anything in this life. I have since come to understand even more that it is, in fact, the mother and handmaiden of what we call genius.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

The skill to do comes of doing.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.