Mastery Quotes
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague.
I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.
What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.
Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?
Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.
Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.
Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558
In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.
to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.
I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.
The Advanced Level is Mastery of the Basics
Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.
You can gain the mastery over skill if only you will invest time to work hard.
The two things that truly belong to ourselves are our thoughts and actions.
Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn’t that apply to all of us?
The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.
Many of the confusions, conflicts, and disarrays that are rampant in today’s organizations, communities, and nations could have been avoided if leaders have solid self-awareness...
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
Self Mastery is the ability to maneuver through life without the mind or emotional attachment. It is being a mindfully present observer instead of the mind identified perceiver.
Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective.
Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice, and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.
Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within
Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches
