Mastery Quotes - Page 4

• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Men, People

  James Allen (2007). “The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  Laozi

  Life, Thinking, Light

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Pregnancy, Intuition, Morality

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Teacher, Retirement, Math

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• Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Self, Grace

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• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

  Herbert Spencer

  Motivational, Men, Self

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.206

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• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

  John Haggai

  Confidence, Focus, Energy

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• The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Humanity, Elements

  "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

  Kip Winger

  Music, Years, Skills

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• With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

  Frederick Soddy

  Struggle, Views, Existence

  Frederick Soddy (1912). “The Interpretation of Radium: Being the Substance of Six Free Popular Experimental Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow”

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• I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.

  Leonard Orr

  Healing, Emotional, Mind

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• You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do

  Roger McDonald

  Sheep, Leader, Tradition

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• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Army, Air

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• Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Lying, Assuming, Talent

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

  Danny Glover

  Education, Children, Creativity

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Technology, Civilization

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

  Ivor Novello

  Real, Light, Long

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• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Positive, Leadership, Knowledge

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”

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• Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Change, Bad Ass

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• Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you. Do it better than it need be done. Next time doing it will be child's play. Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. I know this sounds old-fashioned. It is, but it has built the world.

  Harlow Curtice

  Jobs, Children, Adversity

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• The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Warrior, Path, Lifelong

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler (2011). “In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pay The Price, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

  Stewart Emery

  Limits, Products, Consistently

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• Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Motivational, Sports, Art

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