Mastery Quotes - page 2

You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science? (John Buchan)
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty. View quote
Herbert Hoover
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. View quote
Helen Keller
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of our most fateful decisions are made unbeknownst to ourselves. Yet we insist that mankind can achieve what we cannot: conscious mastery of its existence. This is the creed of those who have given up an irrational belief in God for an irrational faith in mankind. View quote
John N. Gray
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. View quote
Richard Powers
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes – tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. View quote
Eugen Herrigel
Whether trauma will be a cruel and punishing Gorgon or a vehicle for soaring to the heights of transformation and mastery depends upon how we approach it. View quote
Peter A. Levine
Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese? (Rick Riordan)
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. View quote
Robert Greene
We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts. View quote
James Patterson
It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion? View quote
John Assaraf
It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer. View quote
Elliot Aronson
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. View quote
Arthur Erickson
I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer. View quote
David Rockwell
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. View quote
Janet Erskine Stuart
I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind. (Leonard Orr)
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. View quote
William Langewiesche
The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves. View quote
Rachel Carson
It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world. View quote
Pope Sixtus V
I hope that with the help of van Van Gogh and Durand we will be able to emerge from this situation [selling nothing]. It seems to me that I deserve no less, since I have worked conscientiously. I do not believe that anyone could devote - if not more talent - more care and good will to the service of his art; it takes me hours of reflection to decide on the slightest detail. Is this impatience?... I think not! For I do not wish to make a brush stroke when I do not feel complete mastery of my subject, there's the rub - that is the great difficulty; without sensation, nothing, absolutely nothing valid... I believe I have hit my stride. I have begun a series of things which will really be in my style. View quote
Camille Pissarro