Quotes of: Mastery Keyword

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.

Frederick Soddy

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

John Norman

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.

Hans Hofmann

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that mastery that really drives me. I want to be best at something. I don't even know what 'this' is, but there's this inner drive to be the best.

Ben Huh

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

Michelangelo Buonarroti

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

Gabriel Brunsdon

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.

Chris Matakas

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

Chris Matakas

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

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.

Janet Erskine Stuart

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

David Brooks

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

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

Clarence Day

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Henri Matisse

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Lewis Thomas

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.

Richard Powers

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

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Walter F. Mondale