Mastery Quotes

• 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.

  

  Raph Koster
  • Fun
  • Games
  • Drug

• It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

  

  Aristippus
  • Pleasures
  • Mastery
  • Abstinence

• Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Spirit
  • Mastery

• 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.

  

  C.E. Morgan
  • Style
  • Choices
  • Mastery

• 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.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Environment
  • Mastery
  • Aboriginals

• Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

  

  Allan Sekula
  • Photography
  • Mastery
  • Threatens

• Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Language
  • Opportunities
  • Mastery

• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Children
  • Imagination
  • Playing

• 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.

  

  George Eliot
  • Ambition
  • Expect
  • Mastery

• 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.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • inspirational
  • Trump
  • Week

• She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Succeed
  • Gains
  • Bicycle

• 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.

  

  Evagrius Ponticus
  • Power
  • Souls
  • Demons

• 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.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Nature
  • Weakness
  • Mastery

• Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

  

  Ernst Cassirer
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Mastery

• 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.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Condition
  • Mastery
  • Cultivating

• 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.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Words
  • Respect
  • Mastery

• No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Life
  • Art
  • Mastery

• The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Thoughts
  • Discovery
  • Mastery

• Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Mastery

• Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Mistakes
  • Chess
  • Avoidance

• 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.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Power
  • Mastery
  • Gambit

• Mastery is often taken for egotism.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mastery
  • Egotism

• 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.

  

  Paul Kane
  • Art
  • Struggle
  • Mastery

• 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.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Blessed
  • Sense
  • Regard

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