Mastery Quotes

410 quotes by 306 authors

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions.… — Frederick Lenz
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. — John Haggai
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you… — Stephen LaBerge
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the… — Nikola Tesla
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and… — Tobias Wolff
Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them. — Rene Descartes
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be… — Robert Breault
If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. — Thomas a Kempis
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger… — Evagrius Ponticus
Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the… — Ephrem the Syrian
Mastery is often taken for egotism. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills,… — Eric Hoffer
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky… — Garrison Keillor
When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and… — Twyla Tharp
Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We… — Twyla Tharp
I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success.… — Will Smith
Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat. — Plotinus

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