Quotes about Mastery
Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.
- Aristotle
For the love of his art
- Arthur Conan Doyle
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
- John Milton
The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.
- John Piper
What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those whose "god is their belly" (Philippi- ans 3:19).
- John Piper
Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.
- John Piper
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
- John Updike
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
- Christopher Hitchens
My workmanship and quality are my strengths.
- Neelam Kothari
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
- Steven Pressfield
Human beings have a voracious appetite for trying to figure things out in order to gain a sense of mastery over their lives.
- Sarah Young
God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible.
- Scot McKnight