Quotes about Mastery

Not only did I play at a high level, I learned that personal discipline is the indispensable key for accomplishing anything in this life. I have since come to understand even more that it is, in fact, the mother and handmaiden of what we call genius.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

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.

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

The skill to do comes of doing.

You can control yourself if you really want to. I'll tell you how I know you can control yourself. If you were in a full fledged emotional temper tantrum in your house and I knocked on your front door..... Come on! Let me tell you what, you would get control of yourself, and it would only take a few seconds.

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

It is the desire of all finite players to be Master Players, to be so perfectly skilled in their play that nothing can surprise them, so perfectly trained that every move in the game is foreseen at the beginning.

A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.