Mastery Quotes - Page 5

• Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Truth, Creativity, Knowledge

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• Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

  Paul Shepard

  Technology, Broken, Historical

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• Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

  Tom Peters

  Sweat, Able, Enough

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• It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.

  Elliot Aronson

  Hurt, Reality, Skills

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• Clarity proceeds Mastery!

  Robin Sharma

  Clarity

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2015

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• Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Important, Enthusiasm, Ability

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• Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1778, Library of Alexandria

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• If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

  John Maeda

  Confused, Skills, Design

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• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self, Upset, Unity

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• Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.

  Peter Senge

  Courage, Destiny, Personal Mastery

  Peter Senge, Art Kleiner (2011). “The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization”, p.315, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

  George Leonard

  Journey, Risk, Masters

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• Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

  Sarah Lewis

  Want, Gaps, Where You Are

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• One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.

  Fernando Bujones

  Art, Stars, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.

  Jim Whittaker

  Motivational, Discipline, Mountain

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• Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Vocabulary, Mind, Syntax

  Spectator 19 Nov. 1937 "The Psychology of Advertising"

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• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Confidence

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• Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Balance, Life Is, Being Human

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• Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Block, Goal

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 24, 2011

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• All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teacher, Details, Patient

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Stopping, Stuff, I've Learned

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• Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

  Robin Sharma

  Jealous, Successful, People

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Aug 06, 2013

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• The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

  Robert Greene

  Focus, Intensity, Dependent

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.254, Profile Books

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• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

  Pietro Aretino

  Motivational, Kings, Responsibility

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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