Quotes about Mastery

But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

Norbert Leo Butz is a master class in energy.

I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.

As long as anybody plays this game, you never master it because there are so many things that are always changing.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

God is separate from nature, and nature is condemned of God. It's right there in Genesis: we are to be the masters of the world. But if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.