Mastery Quotes
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The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.
Nicholas Ozeki -
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald May
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Three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.
Ninian Stephen -
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Charles Webster Hawthorne -
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky -
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Susan Orlean -
Mastery means making progress at a task that matters to you and is challenging.
Edward Hallowell -
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
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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 -
You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
Stephen Covey