There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one… — Dominicus Corea Copy Share Image
Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct… — Karlfried Graf Durckheim Copy Share Image
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
Like they used to say about Joe Montana, he threw soft because he couldn't throw hard. He was successful because he didn't… — David Berman Copy Share Image
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great… — Joe Hyams Copy Share Image
Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“Masters" are those who have simply started to see the difference in what they have learned and are yet to understand ...” — Alan B Jones Copy Share Image
A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and… — Arthur Dobrin Copy Share Image
I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this… — Leonid Shamkovich Copy Share Image
