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Quotes about Mastery

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
— Aristotle
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!
— Vincent Van Gogh
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
— Mark Twain
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
— Vince Lombardi
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.
— J. Oswald Sanders
He only comes in as our complete and total King, with no person, thing, or activity vying for His place in our hearts. He must be Lord, which means supreme master and owner—meaning we don't own our lives any longer.
— John Bevere
A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
— John Maxwell