The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.
It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole. . . 'Talent is Work'
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you. . . political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.
Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.
I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
Play is your route to mastery.
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.
The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
My weight is not enough and strength is not enough either, so I have to take the fight by mastery.
Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.
I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was … that some people can do sums. … It is in virtue of the intellect that man is a rational animal. The intellect is shown in various ways, but most emphatically by mastery of arithmetic. The Greek system of numerals was very bad, so that the multiplication table was quite difficult, and complicated calculations could only be made by very clever people.