Quotes about Mastery

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.