People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.
It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.
Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.
It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?
Consistency is the DNA of mastery
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
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