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
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
“Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training… — Robert Greene 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Accustom yourself to Master tilings of the greatest difficulty, and which you seem to despair of. For if you observe, the Left-hand,… — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 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
Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Autonomy is the desire to steer our own ship. Mastery is the desire to steer it well. And purpose is the need… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by… — Tom Hayes Copy Share Image
People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
“Personal mastery begins by increasing our awareness about who we truly are, our strengths, limitations... Personal mastery can be achieved not only… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
“With tire Master-Key in his possession, the student may unlock the many doors of the mental and psychic temple of knowledge, and… — Three Initiates Copy Share Image
Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
