Mastery Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.

  Nicholas Ozeki

  Character, Thinking, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Giving, Rope

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• One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Environment

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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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• 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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• On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Hands, Loving Friends

  Corrie ten Boom (2012). “A Prisoner and Yet...”, p.88, CLC Publications

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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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• 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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• Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Men, Law, Numbers

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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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• In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

  Michael Sandel

  Jobs, Careers, Dominion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Jeff Atwood

  Teaching, Peers, Way

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• Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Self, Self Knowledge

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• Ours is not a culture that respects the sick, the old or the vulnerable. We strive for independence, competence, and mastery. In embracing such 'frontier' values, we may become intolerant of human wholeness, contemptuous of anything in ourselves, and in others, that has needs or is capable of suffering. The denial of a vulnerability is the ultimate barrier to compassion.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Sick, Suffering

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• Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Terrified

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• Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

  Peter Senge

  Perseverance, Creative, Allies

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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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• I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.

  Marian Seldes

  Memories, Play, Sound

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• Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

  Allan Sekula

  Photography, Promise, Anarchy

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Technology, Humans, Slips

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