Mastery Quotes

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

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

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible. Even with complete and thorough study there is always the possibility of being defeated and although one may be expert in a particular form, mastery is something a man never stops seeking to attain.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

To achieve great things we must be self-confined...mastery is revealed in limitation.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.

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 not in a position to transcend them.

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Mastery is revealed in limitation.

Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

In becoming part of the Body of Christ, sickness should have no more mastery over us than it had over the Body of Christ when He was on the earth.

Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.