Mastery Quotes

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. (Michelangelo)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. View quote
Henri Matisse
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. View quote
Hans Hofmann
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown. View quote
Thomas Mann
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. View quote
Albert Einstein
Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call. View quote
M. Scott Peck
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives. (Danny Glover)
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. View quote
Ivor Novello
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. View quote
Kent Nerburn
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. View quote
Kip Winger
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. View quote
Frederick Soddy
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator. View quote
Amedeo Modigliani
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form... View quote
Maimonides
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself. View quote
George Eliot
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don't know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. View quote
Gerhard Richter
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology. View quote
Margaret Mead
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down. (Arianna Huffington)
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son. View quote
Camille Paglia
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. View quote
Sara Teasdale
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. View quote
Marianne Moore
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. ... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. View quote
George Pólya