Mastery Quotes - Page 20

• Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take.

  Robin Sharma

  Goal, Action, Clarity

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 22, 2012

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• Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.

  Robin Sharma

  Gratitude, Inspire, World

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 08, 2015

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• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Basketball, Player, Numbers

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

  Tony Buzan

  Opportunity, Discipline, People

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• When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.

  Reinhold Messner

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Self, Achieve, Great Things

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• Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Practice, Habit, Performances

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• Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Self, Self Knowledge

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• History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Past, Men, Light

  Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

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• Clarity breeds mastery.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Powerful, Achievement

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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• Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Winning, Ideas, Profound

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

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• Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.

  Robin Sharma

  Want, Clarity, Behavior

  Source: www.pickthebrain.com

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• Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Grace, Impossible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.282, Courier Corporation

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• Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lost, Term, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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• What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

  J. I. Packer

  Loneliness, Self, Life And Death

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• Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things - only we do it from an individuality perspective.

  L. Todd Rose

  People, Perspective, Individuality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.

  Jeff Atwood

  Teaching, Peers, Way

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• The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.  Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.

  Matthew Syed

  Motivational, Sports, Practice

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• When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

  Liz Garbus

  Goal, Life Is, Achieve

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'

  Sarah Lewis

  Labels, World

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• The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.

  Mason Cooley

  Confusion, Unhappiness, Aphorism

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• Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Performances, Has Beens

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• Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Running, Children

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• The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Music, Order, Play

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