Quotes about Mastery

A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.

Repetition is the mother of character and skill.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.