Top 35 Never Mastered Quotes
#1. I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.
Christine Fonseca
#2. That's not precisely what I had in mind.
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
Diana Gabaldon
#3. She'd never mastered the talent for apologizing, but she appreciated it in other people.
Terry Pratchett
#4. My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to
Neal Stephenson
#5. I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a fine improvisational musician. I pretty much have to stick to what's written on the page.
Condoleezza Rice
#6. Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
William S. Burroughs
#7. The people kvetching about the new editing software never mastered the old editing software either.
John E. McIntyre
#8. Andre had never mastered the art of ironing. He usually ironed more wrinkles in than out. Pistols, knives, and explosives he could handle, but put a hot iron in his hands and chances were that he'd get hurt.
Toby Joyce
#9. Writing is a craft never mastered.
I.O. Neil
#10. Inspiration is not something that you sit passively and hope for. Inspiration is a lifestyle that must be practised continuously and is never completely mastered.
Mensah Oteh
#11. Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it ... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.
Alfred Molina
#12. I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'
Tina Fey
#13. Her calculations were sometimes a little fuzzy, for the same reason that her checkbook sometimes did not balance; Becky Vesey (as she had been known as a child) had never really mastered the multiplication tables and she was inclined to confuse sevens with nines.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.
Robin Hobb
#15. The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
D. A. Carson
#16. Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his "precious." And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.
Mandy Broughton
#17. I hated him. Hated every terrible wonderful emotion he inspired within me. Hated how completely and perfectly he mastered me. Hated how he could be absolutely brutal and yet still required my consent. Hated how much I could never stop loving him.
Laurelin Paige
#18. It was rare for a patient to readjust successfully to normal life after a period spent in a mental hospital.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Unfortunately, I'll need to watch them again at some point, because my mind keeps straying back to reality. I envy Deo's ability to lose himself in fantasy for a while. That type of break seems almost as useful as sleep for keeping stress at bay, and I've never really mastered it.
Rysa Walker
#20. Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
Tom Robbins
#21. The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.
Emil Cioran
#22. I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.
Gavin Friday
#23. If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Never did I fight for the poor. I fought against the rich
which of course isn't at all the same thing. In any case, the fighting was the point. You don't fight to become free
to fight is to be free. A man with a gun and the will to use it can't be mastered, he can only be killed.
James Carlos Blake
#25. You should never look at the cup or glass as being half empty; see it as being half empty, then you will have mastered the test of greatness.
Barbara Hart
#26. Nate took the sheet. It was covered in the neat, curvy handwriting so many women mastered and men almost never did. The top half was the message, recopied in the same Cyrillic that it had been on the wall. Below it was the translation in English.
Peter Clines
#27. Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
Gabrielle Giffords
#28. Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God's approval or disapproval, we must make a conscious daily effort to look outside ourselves to the righteousness of Christ, then to stand in the present reality of our justification.
Jerry Bridges
#29. The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.
Bronislaw Malinowski
#30. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Well hell. He'd gotten sucked right into caring for this little bundle of troubles.
Cherise Sinclair
#35. Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
Siegfried Sassoon
