If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to… — Joline Godfrey Copy Share Image
The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like… — Will Advise Copy Share Image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
“Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of… — Michael Gelb Copy Share Image
Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to… — Mineko Iwasaki Copy Share Image
If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depend directly on how to the mind filters and interprets… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
