67 Quotes by George Leonard

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

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

What we call “mastery” can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.

Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.