Mastery Quotes

410 quotes by 308 authors

Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will… — Anandamayi Ma
... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in… — Ninian Stephen
Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How… — Eugen Herrigel
Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this! — Jennifer Lacy
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding… — Edward Weston
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately — Mikhail Botvinnik
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale.… — Maude Barlow
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping… — Piero Ferrucci
We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is… — Ronald Cunningham
When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the invisible universe, toward… — Gerald Epstein
The master and the student on the journey to mastery, knows that the illusions are the illusions, decides why they are there, and then consciously… — Neale Donald Walsch
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to… — Lewis Mumford
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. — Mark Twain
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying… — Thomas Szasz
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as this. — Cecil Day-Lewis
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain… — Louis Orr
To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay… — Stephen Covey
My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery. — Fedor Emelianenko
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things. — Joe Hyams

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