Quotes about Mastery
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.
- Tucker Max
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
- Michelangelo
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
- John of the Cross
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
- Epictetus
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- George Eliot
Make today your master piece.
- John Wooden
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
- John Oliver
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
- Fr. Richard Rohr