Mastery Quotes - Page 23

• Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

  Edmund Blunden

  Vision, Tinkering, Moments

  Edmund Blunden (1930). “Leigh Hunt: a biography”, Archon Books

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• Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Men, Understanding, Peculiar

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• Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Real, Self Esteem

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• A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Powerful, Yoga

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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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• Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

  Robert Greene

  School, Persistence, Past

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• Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

  Robert Greene

  Luck, Desire, Natural

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.303, Profile Books

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• They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved inwhat to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Encouragement, Jobs, Children

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• You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Roots, Discipline

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• Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Self, Practice

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

  Naomi Klein

  Letting Go, Nature, Dominance

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• True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

  Robert Greene

  Lying, Presence Of Mind, Self

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Over You, Mind, Body

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• Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

  John Wesley

  Character, Loss, Causes

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• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Order, Enemy, Firsts

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• Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery.

  Pam Brown

  Horse, Distance, Moving

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• At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

  George Leonard

  Heart, Practice, Path

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

  Richard Powers

  Forever, Faces, Steps

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• Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

  George Leonard

  Art, Feet, Path

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• If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

  George Leonard

  Journey, Firsts, Instruction

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.

  George Leonard

  Creativity, Journey, Years

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• Practice is the path of mastery.

  George Leonard

  Practice, Path

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• Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Hard Work, Technology, Skills

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• The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

  Jim Garrison

  Light, United States, Doe

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• 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.

  James Gordon Lindsay

  Should Have, Body, Earth

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