Mastery Quotes - Page 18

• Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Men, Creative

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Tongue, Assets

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Play, Musician

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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• Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

  Daniel Quinn

  Destiny, Men, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Natural Talent, Skills, Looks

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• The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

  Lewis Thomas

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  Ice T

  Rap, Kids, Crowds

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• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Age, Grows

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• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Struggle, Thinking, Ivy

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• Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Technology, Media

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• Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

  Caroline Knapp

  Self Esteem, Risk, Size

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• Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Reflection, Soul

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

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• He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hatred, Feelings, Gestures

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• The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Struggle, And Love

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

  Brian Weiss

  Patience, Spiritual, Destiny

  Brian L. Weiss (2004). “Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Wish, Weakness

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.143, Prestwick House Inc

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• Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

  Arianna Huffington

  Inspiring, Fall, Fearless

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• Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Air, Water

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Aleister Crowley

  Way, Break, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

  Bono

  Art, Retirement, Way

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• ...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

  A.C. Grayling

  Fundamentals, Emotion, Virtuous

  A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.4, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.

  Scott Hahn

  Discipline, Giving, Grace

  Scott Hahn (2005). “Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession”, p.130, Image

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• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

  Anais Nin

  Moving On, Pain, Swimming

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• Mastery passes often for egotism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Egotism

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