Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
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.
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
With age, art and life become one.
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, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.
Play is your route to mastery.
I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.
And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.
I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command. " The man made to rise. "But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.
Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me. . . . of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.
I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.