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
Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent. — Benjamin Bloom 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
You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect… — Ngaio Marsh 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
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Emotional Mastery, then, is the capacity to recognize and use your emotions effectively. It helps you embrace and rise above what you… — Bruce Elkin Copy Share Image
A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
And, partly, I had found that theory-structure was a superpower in helping one get what one wanted. As I had early discovered… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn't necessarily mean that they do… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything,… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.” — Bryant McGill 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
We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“Chastity requires “an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives,… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image