Mastery Quotes
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The mastery of those Aboriginals over their environment has been the inspiration of my life. I would like to be the master of my environment as they are of theirs. I think I have gone a long way towards that, but not nearly far enough. I have a tremendous respect for them.
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Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.
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Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
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Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.
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Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
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I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
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You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
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He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.
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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
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Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.
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The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form.
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Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction.
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
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Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.
