The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the… — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and… — Caroline Knapp 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
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his… — Leonardo da Vinci 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 M. Senge 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
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“For whatever goal you want to achieve, there is discomfort along that path. Self-discipline drives you through this discomfort and allows you… — Peter Hollins Copy Share Image
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the… — Ronald Cunningham Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
