November 10, 2022
32 Inspiring Quotes on Mastery

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"Mastery" is a fascinating phenomenon -- one that many people speak about, but few attain. Is it possible? Yes, it is. But what is it really? Ah... now that's the question, isn't it? The dictionary defines mastery as "possession or display of great skill or technique." OK. Good start. If you're fluent in French, for example, you have a mastery of the language. If you win every game of chess, you show a mastery of the game. Skill is necessary, of course, in order to be a Master, but it not sufficient. Something else, beyond skill, is also needed. What might that be?

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery then mastery of oneself." - Leonardo DaVinci

"It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it." - George Leonard

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all." - Michelangelo

"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." - Albert Einstein

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"People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them. They approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. They do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning." - Peter Senge

"Clarity precedes mastery." - Robin Sharma

"If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master." - Jordan Peterson

"It took me a lifetime." - Pablo Picasso

"Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject." - Thomas Mann

"Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up." - Michael J. Gelb

"Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge." - Robert Greene

"All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience." - Ursula. K. Leguin

"The Master doesn't glitter like a jewel, but is as rugged and common as a stone." - Lao Tzu

"If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was." - Pablo Picasso

"I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned, is the stuff of mastery." - Danielle LaPorte

"Detachment is the beginning of mastery." - Sri Aurobindo

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee

"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself." - James Allen

"Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense." - Deepak Chopra

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"Every artist was first an amateur." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." - Buddha

"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." - Neal Donald Walsch

"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." - Bruce Lee

"You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work. You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That's the secret of success." - Chef Jiro

"Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity." - Robin Sharma

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all our resources on mastering a single area of our lives." - Tony Robbins

"You cannot control what happens to you but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you. In that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you." - Brian Tracy

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward." - Napoleon Hill

"All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere." - Morihei Ueshiba

"How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself." - George Leonard

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