Quotes about Mastery

Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that's actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path.

You really can't try to do everything, especially if you intend to be the best in the world.

real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time.

Excellence is not an act, but habit.