Mastering Quotes

110 quotes by 105 authors

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to… — Morris Kline
To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that… — Geoffrey Sampson
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when… — Tom Robbins
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience… — Greg LeMond
Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our… — Matthieu Ricard
Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… — Sigmund Freud
We have yet to discover the true incentive, the inner Will which will have an over-mastering effect upon our lives, and yet be present in… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we… — Sargent Shriver
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying… — Charlie Munger
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty… — Henry Ford
I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would… — Richard G. Scott
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed… — George Will
Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy. — Jane Fonda
I think maybe God was trying to tell me that gentleness begins with strength, quietness with security. A great tree is both moved and unmoved,… — Rachel Held Evans
The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless — Robert Aickman

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