Top 58 Way Of Mastery Quotes
#1. An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.
Maria Montessori
#2. Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.
Hassan Fathy
#3. Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
Gautama Buddha
#4. Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
Neale Donald Walsch
#5. 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 Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
#6. A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.
Frederick Lenz
#7. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Bruce Lee
#8. Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.
Bryant McGill
#9. Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
John Gardner
#10. Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.
Robin Sharma
#11. You will discover that silence is a spectrum where there is no end to how deep you can go. It is there, in the eternal quiet, that you will find the mastery that you seek.
Graeme Rodaughan
#12. Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.
Swami Vivekananda
#13. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.
Alaric Hutchinson
#14. Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.
Gary Hopkins
#15. And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring
Sharan B. Merriam
#16. 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
#17. What we call "mastery" can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.
George Leonard
#18. Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run
each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away
each a small separation, a small distancing.
Lillian B. Rubin
#19. 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
#20. It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one can gain mastery over them so that they do not take the upper hand.
Stephen Richards
#21. Positivity in the mind fuels ingenuity.
Positivity in the heart fuels generosity.
Positivity in the soul fuels mastery.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#22. Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.
Fawn Weaver
#23. We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
Tariq Ramadan
#24. To see was not to control, that self-understanding was far short of self-mastery. He was afraid of himself.
Richard Wright
#25. Instead, the polling business gives the patricians an idea of what the mob is thinking, and of how that thinking might be changed or, shall we say, "shaped." It is the essential weapon in the mastery of populism by the elite.
Christopher Hitchens
#26. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Bruce Lee
#27. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#28. Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.
Bentley Little
#29. While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn't it lovely to say, "He/She suffers of Poetry?".
Ioana-Cristina Casapu
#30. The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends ... then self mastery can be sought.
Laozi
#31. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#32. From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.
Dominicus Corea
#33. Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.
Chris Matakas
#34. If you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others - choose your master.
Rick Julian
#35. No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything.
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo
Jonathan Harnum
#36. A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
Henry Kissinger
#37. Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject
Thomas Mann
#38. 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
#39. Not mastery but service, will lead people in the right way.
Albert Einstein
#42. Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
Siri Hustvedt
#43. Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.
Pamela Slim
#44. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#45. In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal.
Richard Corliss
#46. The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.
Norman Vincent Peale
#47. He is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does it mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence.
Charlotte Bronte
#48. Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.
Jeff Atwood
#49. When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.
Twyla Tharp
#50. Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own.
Gore Vidal
#51. To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Stephen Covey
#52. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.
Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.
Richie Norton
#53. You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
Pablo Picasso
#54. The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules - but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
Aleister Crowley
#55. Mastery of design, empathy, play, and other seemingly "soft" aptitudes is now the main way for individuals and firms to stand out in a crowded marketplace.
Daniel H. Pink
#56. The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.
Frederick Lenz
#57. Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery.
Sean Williams
#58. To become masters of love, we have to practice love. The art of relationship is also a whole mastery, and the only way to reach mastery is with practice.
Miguel Ruiz