“Success is not simply about intelligence and ambition. The time invested, the quality of preparation, and the effort applied are essential to… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.” — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
“Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“What you assume is your greatest weakness, is often your greatest strength. Tap into it.” — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually… — Ralph Vince Copy Share Image
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded,… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. — Edmund Blunden Copy Share Image
The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god. — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image