Mastery Quotes
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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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Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
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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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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
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However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.
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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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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
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Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
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Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.
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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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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
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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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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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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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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.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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The struggle between art and mastery is like the struggle between spontaneity and persistence. When they become one, it is indeed rare and hard won.
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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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No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.
