Mastered Quotes

205 Mastered quotes by 180 unique authors

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again — Julia Child
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started… — Jack London
I learned failure early and mastered it. — Gregory Maguire
It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until… — Jeanette Winterson
and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world. — Frank O'Hara
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of… — Cassandra Clare
Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious. — John Burdett
By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad.… — Alison Croggon
The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the… — Orson Scott Card
My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe… — Amanda Hocking
You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to… — John Piper
Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in… — Koushun Takami
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets… — David Brooks
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left… — William Shakespeare
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person… — Vince Lombardi
That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of… — Diana Gabaldon
She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself. — Pat Conroy
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in… — Jack London
Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your… — Charles Spurgeon
Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy… — Stephen Dunn
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Laozi
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? — Seneca the Elder
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the… — Booker T. Washington
He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but… — Laozi

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