Circumstances Quote by Oswald Chambers

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.…

— Twyla Tharp

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some…

— Robert Greene

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

— Stephen Mitchell

Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.

— Anonymous

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated…

— Sarah Lewis

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Achieving mastery requires breaking through the shell of your own limitations—both actual and imagined—and struggling up to the freedom and enjoyment of real skill.”

— Erika Andersen

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

— George Leonard

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

— Robin Sharma

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of…

— Robert Greene

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we…

— Madeleine L'Engle