Mastery Quotes - Page 9

• I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Teacher, Powerful, Army

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• The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Religious, Giving

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• Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

  C.E. Morgan

  Choices, Style, Lexicon

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Acceptance, German Language, Legal System

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Self

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.

  Charles Garfield

  Commitment, Emotional, Self

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• Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

  Mark Twain

  Anxiety, Panic, Resistance

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• Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.

  Ian Kershaw

  Self, Speech, Emotion

  Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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• There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Fellow Man

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.81, Routledge

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• The most fully actualized people that I studied over ten years consistently pushed the envelope. These people consistently demanded far more of themselves every day than anyone else ever expected from them. These people raised their standards and committed themselves from their hearts to be the best they could be and to live a life of uncommon wonder. This is what self-mastery is all about.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Self, Years

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• Being an elite performer on the playing field of life is not about being perfect. Rather, it is about cultivating a mental focus towards mastery in every area of your life. It is about commiting yourself, from the core of your heart, to manifest and polish your highest talents and become the person you are destined to be.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Perfect, Focus

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• Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.

  Rachel Bloom

  Girly, Fashion, Fun

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.

  Dominic Raab

  Passion, Thinking, Details

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Important, Firsts

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

  John Dewey

  Growing Up, Pain, Thoughtful

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through politics, military force, religion, or personal values won't work in the future like it has in the past.

  Jim Clifton

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Jim Clifton (2013). “The Coming Jobs War”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• ...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

  Michael Crichton

  Humility, Discipline, People

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• I still look at that water, and I look at Moana's hair, and I'm just like, "How is this even happening?" It's such an incredible mix of technical mastery and wizardry. It's really incredible. It's layers and layers and layers. It's not unlike building a musical. It's really pretty cool.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Hair, Water, Musical

  Source: deadline.com

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• We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teacher, Real, Feelings

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  People, Giving, Individual

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

  Vandana Shiva

  Engineering, Play, Ideas

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

  Vandana Shiva

  Engineering, Mindset, Biotech

  Source: www.nogeoingegneria.com

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• Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Yoga, Mind, Clarity

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• The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Purpose

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