Quotes about Mastery

Being a great writer is not the same as writing great.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

Non-doing can arise within action as well as in stillness. The inward stillness of the doer merges with the outward activity to such an extent that the action does itself. Effortless activity. Nothing is forced. There is no exertion of the will, no small-minded "I," "me," or "mine" to lay claim to a result, yet nothing is left undone. Non-doing is a cornerstone of mastery in any realm of activity.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

Control of space means control of the world.

Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.