It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.
Clarity breeds mastery.
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
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.
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
With age, art and life become one.
When you're really young, you're young for life.
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.
The discipline of personal mastery. . . starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.
Mastery. - We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.
Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.