Mastery Quotes

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Execution, Week

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

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

  Robert Greene

  Skills, Creative, Way

  Twitter post from Jan 31, 2017

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  Focus, Genius, Fields

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.263, Profile Books

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• Detachment is the beginning of mastery.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Detachment

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Mother (1995). “Looking from Within”, p.151, Lotus Press

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• Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Yoga

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• Rule your mind or it will rule you.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Letting Go, Crazy

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• We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.

  James Patterson

  Art, Trying, Demonstration

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• Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Achievement, Action

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Self, Differences

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• Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

  Gretchen Rubin

  Keys, Self, Awareness

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• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

  Peter Senge

  Reality, Personal Mastery, Discipline

  Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.14, Random House

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• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Light, Doors, Skills

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

  Bruce Lee

  Swimming, Land, Water

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

  Bruce Lee

  Character, Thinking, Personal Growth

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Action, Conquer

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• The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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