Quotes about Mastery
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
- Martha Graham
My temptations have been my masters in divinity.
- Martin Luther
An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Conquer your fears before they conquer you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.
- Maya Angelou
The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.
- Mike Breen
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
- Og Mandino
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.
- Os Guinness
Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
- Os Guinness
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
- Oscar Wilde
To have a master and teacher is not the same thing as being mastered and taught.
- Oswald Chambers