231 Quotes About Mastery

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn’t that apply to all of us?

It took me a lifetime.

Every craft is a self-portrait of the maestro who does it. Autograph your work with greatness.

To prove mastery requires significant scholarly knowledge; otherwise, it mirrors the tomfoolery.

But for those that have not already attained mastery, structure and doctrine are needed because formlessness is useless to the beginner.

The difference between a student and a master is, the master has failed more times than the student has tried

Like any fine artist, he controlled the tension of the audience’s longing. You desired, unwittingly, a certain kind of roll or climb, or a return to a certain portion of the air, and he fulfilled your hope slantingly, like a poet, or evaded it until you thought you would burst, and then fulfilled it surprisingly, so you gasped and cried out.

Accustom yourself to Master tilings of the greatest difficulty, and which you seem to despair of. For if you observe, the Left-hand, tho' for want of Practice, 'tis insignificant to other Business, yet it holds the Bridle better than the Right, because it has been used to it.

An expert is not a university educated professor, it is a person that has demonstrated mastery of the subject through practical experience, excellent results and numerous highly rated publications.