Top 100 Quotes About Mastered
#2. 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
#3. We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion.
John Welwood
#4. Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant.
Douglas Brinkley
#5. We should every night call ourselves to an account;
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca.
#6. A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.
Frederick Lenz
#7. Okay, so divers have mastered a large body of occult knowledge. That explains their general resemblance to hackers, albeit physically fit hackers.
Neal Stephenson
#8. 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
#9. Fear in the biblical sense ... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.
Edward T. Welch
#10. A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
Lord Acton
#11. 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
#12. Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.
Steven Raichlen
#13. See, that's the thing about L.A. - When you've mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that's when you know.
Kris Kidd
#14. When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
Aloe Blacc
#15. Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.
Rick Jarow
#16. 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
#17. Jesus felt pure and calmly thought
Only the One God;
Who made himself to be a god
Offends his holy will.
And thus the right(ness) has to shine
What Mahomet also achieved;
Only by the term of the One
He mastered the whole world
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. Sometimes Jane wished she were good at diplomatic speeches. She wished she'd mastered coquettish looks and innocent smiles. But she hadn't. She was singularly bad at those forms of persuasion. She was good at handing out money and opinions.
Courtney Milan
#19. Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.
La Meri
#20. More than any expert Irene had met, Mr. Simms mastered the intricacies of dealing in art. He understood an object's worth, not solely its dollar value but how that value could be manipulated into emotional currency.
Kim Fay
#21. Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.
Freddy Rodriguez
#22. Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#23. Having acknowledged that a man must master his circumstances or otherwise be mastered by them, the
Amor Towles
#24. Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.
Lee Siegel
#25. For Mary, the world is something to be mastered, manipulated, and made; for Fanny, the world is a gift to be received with thanksgiving. Fanny is the eucharistic heroine, giving thanks in all times and places.
Peter J. Leithart
#26. You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!
Eric Thomas
#27. God did not give the Bible so we could master him or it; God gave the Bible so we could live it, so we could be mastered by it. The moment we think we've mastered it, we have failed to be readers of the Bible.
Scot McKnight
#28. Strong features, firm, grim mouth, - all energy, decision, will, - were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me
Charlotte Bronte
#29. I had not mastered the discipline, as N. T. Wright calls it, of looking to the cross of Christ and seeing evidence there that I am loved extravagantly and inexorably by the self-giving triune God.
Wesley Hill
#30. It is far easier to launch oneself from a high place in the hope of sprouting wings, than it is to write a book. Yet once you've mastered it, you will be soaring higher than the birds.
Harrison Davies
#31. Having mastered our environment, let us now master
ourselves and choose our own destiny.
C.S. Lewis
#32. If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
#33. Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.
Chris Hedges
#34. But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.
Philip Gerard
#35. Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
David Mitchell
#36. It would seem, from this, that the people of Omanorion had mastered the ultra-civilized art of minding their own business.
Clark Ashton Smith
#37. Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
William S. Burroughs
#38. She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
Pat Conroy
#39. I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.
Clint Eastwood
#40. There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
Phil Knight
#41. Your illustrations are really good." "You've mastered another world than I.
Robert H. Eisenman
#42. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
advantage in all instances.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#43. If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.
Chuck Daly
#44. Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn't know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there were gaps which language could cover over as long as you had acquired the know-how.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#45. Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Leon Trotsky
#46. I daily examine myself on three points: - whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful; - whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere; - whether I may have not mastered and practised the instructions of my teacher.
Confucius
#47. Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.
Travis Bradberry
#48. Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
Lewis Mumford
#49. "The She of the dragon will return and ascend
When the cycle of twelve draws to an end ... "
"The She of the Dragoneye will restore and defend
When the Darkforce is mastered with Hua of All Men.
Alison Goodman
#50. When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.
Jon Mead
#52. Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
Stephen Curry
#53. If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft ... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
Anthony Burgess
#54. Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
Dorothy Parker
#55. No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish therefore for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts.
St. Gregory Dialogos
#56. Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I trembled as if it were hers.
George Eliot
#57. I do my workouts in the morning, and often I'll take someone from my team. The person I'm meeting with can pick the class, whether it's a spin or barre class, or going for a power walk. It's hard to run and talk - I haven't mastered that yet.
Alexa Von Tobel
#58. 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
#59. I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg
#60. He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.
Laird Barron
#61. Mr Banwell had mastered the great truth that truth itself, like buildings, can be manufactured.
Jed Rubenfeld
#62. Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#63. As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it.
Leo Tolstoy
#64. You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#65. I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.
Eve Ensler
#66. She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.
Robin Hobb
#67. The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.
D. A. Carson
#68. There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,
when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.
Toba Beta
#69. Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
H. P. Blavatsky
#70. A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
#71. I've evolved enough that I've learned to not subject others to the fallout of my own unhappiness. I think that's a significant, hard-won behavioral leap that, sadly, a staggering percent of the population of folks I know haven't quite mastered.
Keith Murray
#72. One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.
Timothy Leary
#73. Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.
Frederick Lenz
#74. The people kvetching about the new editing software never mastered the old editing software either.
John E. McIntyre
#75. The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#76. The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
Khalil Gibran
#77. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books which he has merely skimmed, lapping at them, as the classic proverb puts it; "As the dogs drink of Nilus." Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.
Hillary Clinton
#79. When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.
John De Ruiter
#80. In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.
Stephen Hunter
#81. 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
#82. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
George Bernard Shaw
#84. 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
#85. Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.
David Halberstam
#86. I wondered just how much of her I'd invented. Had I only mastered some skill for awing myself? Or would this creature, Camilla, like a settler's incessant New World, keep increasing my capacity not only to marvel but to marvel at myself in the face of her?
Nick Fowler
#87. A prophet is the one who, when everyone else despairs, hopes. And when everyone else hopes, he despairs. You'll ask me why. It's because he has mastered the Great Secret: that the Wheel turns.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#88. Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#89. I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory.
Caryl Phillips
#90. Feeling like a winner.
There is no need for a race after all.
I just mastered how to walk
Differently this time.
Priscilla Koranteng
#91. The Laws of the Universe cannot be changed... However, they can be Mastered!
George G. Edwards
#92. One thing people often want me to talk about is my public love life. When it comes to my love life, the perception seems as though I am a player. But that's not true. Love is something I am still learning. It's just an obstacle that I haven't yet mastered. I think that's my biggest hurdle in life.
Chris Brown
#93. I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.
Gary Hayden
#94. Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
Wernher Von Braun
#95. Knowing how to tinker with a broken piece of prose until it hums is a source of contentment known by all who have mastered a worthy craft.
Carol Fisher Saller
#96. 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
#97. Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.
Ethel Smyth
#98. I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
Norm Sloan
#99. There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you've mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!
Jack Canfield
#100. A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except to be able to grow in rows
Doug Larson
