Mastery Quotes

“You want to work spells,' Ogion said presently, striding along. 'You've drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?'
'Strawflower.'
'And that?'
'I don't know.'
'Fourfoil, they call it.' Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion said nothing more, 'What is its use, Master?'
'None I know of.'
Ged kept the seedpod a while as they went on, then tossed it away.
'When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?' Ogion went on a half mile or so, and said at last, 'To hear, one must be silent.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Perhaps,
The man-hero is not the exceptional monster,
But he that of repetition is most master.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

“I forgot who I was before the (space) suit,
before gravity was ripped from my vocabulary
and I mastered the art of drifting”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Way Out

“Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“The head alone is a tyrant. The heart alone is chaotic. The marriage of the two is mastery.”
― Mary Guide

“An expert is not a university educated professor, it is a person that has demonstrated mastery of the subject through practical experience, excellent results and numerous highly rated publications.”
― Steven Magee

“Failure embraces everyone, but only experts know, how to slip her the tongue.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Because of nothing but training, some people can effortlessly do something we cannot do even terribly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most people master the art of wasting a life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Do it well. If you're going to watch a movie, watch it well. If you're going to eat ice cream, eat it well. If you're going to create something, create it well.”
― Trevor Carss

“It is rest, not a vacation, that is a biological need.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A brushstroke from an inexperienced hand becomes an impressive and expensive work of art after being done thousands of times over. Truly, masterpiece is in the mastery.”
― Erwin D. Maramat

“Your feelings come from your thoughts, as you master your mind, you'll need to matter feelings too. If an emotion starts to take control… your best weapon is truth. It's ok to feel. Not okay to be controlled by feelings. Don't follow your heart. Follow truth.”
― Josh Hatcher

“Self-awareness without personal judgment becomes mastery.”
― Richie Norton

“You cannot be great at something at which you have never been good.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“May every being not just learn but MASTER the language of Tolerance, Peace and Love”
― Adiela Akoo

“Every craft is a self-portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.”
― Sravani Saha Nakhro

“If you wanna speak like the gods, your ear must be open as the sky.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Your realization of your being better than someone at something is not an invitation for you to advise them on that thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Coaching mastery isn’t just about improving skills; mastery also requires that you quickly catch internal disruptions and shift back to being fully present with your clients.”
― Marcia Reynolds, Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry

“The world of intelligent people know the interests of billionaires in term of love and innovation.
That's the story of how and why WikiBili is created."
-- Jean Wallet, the founder of AYCH inc. --”
― Jean Wallet

“So not only was this curious bracelet [found at the Denisova cave] unequivocally the work of anatomically archaic human beings--the Denisovans-- but also it testified to their mastery of advanced manufacturing techniques in the Upper Paleolithic, many millennia ahead of the earliest use of these techniques in the Neolithic by our own supposedly "advanced" species, Homo sapiens. Also made crystal clear was the realization that the Denisovans must have possessed the same kinds of artistic sensibility and self-awareness that we habitually associate only with our own kind--for there can be no doubt that very real, conscious, aware, and unmistakably human beings had interacted with this bracelet at every stage of its conception, design, and manufacture, all the way through to its end use.”
― Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

“All mastery is about doing that which the senses tell us cannot be done.”
― Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Painted Oxen

“Past has no power on your present but if you feel it has means you are allowing your past to interfere in your present.”
― Deepak Kumar, Apple Juice For Success

“Mastery over misery is no mystery. Time helps but much depends on what one does with time.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“When the talent is torrential, the harvest is inevitable.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Fragility is the mask of mastery.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“Your authority holds to espionage me over your inner jealous, more willingly, my mastery holds you to patronage over my inner zealous”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The difference between a student and a master is, the master has failed more times than the student has tried”
― Mac Duke The Strategist

“Some people refuse to acknowledge someone’s greatness while that person is still broke or alive, or not educated, rich, or famous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana