Excellence Quote by Robert Greene

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

— Yvon Chouinard

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 is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the…

— Robert Greene

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

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

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

— George Leonard

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

— Anonymous

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

— George Leonard

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates…

— Eknath Easwaran

There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be…

— Angela Duckworth

“Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.”

— Peter C. Brown

“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