“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
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
“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
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a job anyone just falls into. It is mastery of a craft: in fact, the craft that enables all… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Emotional mastery provides a solid, stable foundation upon which to create the life you long for. Together with the creating skills and… — Bruce Elkin 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
“Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas modeled their approach on Jane Goodall’s: they began their studies by relinquishing control. In the masculine world… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward… — Lillian B. Rubin 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Trading mastery is a state of complete acceptance of probability, not a state of fight it.” — Yvan Byeajee Copy Share Image
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story… — William Langewiesche Copy Share Image
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“There exists in some individuals more than enough talents, expertises, or greatness for more than three people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?” — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Anonymous 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
“In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body… — James Gordon Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up… — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
“I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.” — Chris Matakas Copy Share Image
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
