One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.
From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.
Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.
It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer.
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.
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.
Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.
Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.
Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
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?
My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.