Mastery Quotes

410 quotes by 295 authors

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate:… — Charlotte Bronte
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts. — James Patterson
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,… — Jonathan Franzen
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language. — Joan Didion
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image… — Bruce Lee
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. — Helen Keller
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. — Rachel Carson
When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects… — Brigham Young
We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and… — Stephen Hawking
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles… — George Eliot
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion… — Jack Weatherford
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no… — Susan Kay
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth… — Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve… — Philip Roth
My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to… — Arianna Huffington
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to… — M. Scott Peck
I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But… — Susanna Clarke
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone… — Steven Erikson
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back… — William Golding

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