Excellence Quote by Susan Orlean

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to…

— Susan Orlean

I love that idea of mastery.

— Tommy Caldwell

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— George Leonard

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

— Michelangelo

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

— Peter C. Brown

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are…

— Aleister Crowley

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…

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Stephen Mitchell

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

— Iain Banks

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

To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without…

— Robin Sharma