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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. -- Thomas Mann
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill. -- Yvon Chouinard
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. -- John Paul Jones
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. -- Tom Peters
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
Clarity proceeds Mastery! -- Robin Sharma
Mastery passes often for egotism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mastery is revealed in limitation. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Mastery is often taken for egotism. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mastery of language affords remarkable power. -- Frantz Fanon
Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness. -- Ron Kurtz
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. -- Alexandre Dumas
Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving. -- Sarah Lewis
Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. -- Mollie Marti
Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits. -- Stewart Emery
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense. -- Deepak Chopra
Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING. -- Kenny Werner
Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path. -- George Leonard
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. -- Gerald May
Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. -- Robin Sharma
Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. -- George Leonard
Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure. -- George Leonard
Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired. -- Robin Sharma
Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally. -- Peter Senge
Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. -- Sarah Lewis
Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. -- Jack White
Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end. -- Peter Ralston
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. -- Edmund Blunden
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. -- Alice Schwarzer
Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing. -- Bill Crawford
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. -- John W. Gardner
Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within. -- Robert Greene
You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Robert Greene
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind. -- T. K. V. Desikachar
Mastery occurs when you remove all the filters, masks, and obstacles so that you may more clearly see and connect to your power within-your divinity, your soul. -- Peggy Sealfon
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. -- Eknath Easwaran
Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven. -- Eckhart Tolle
Mastery is not dispensed on the podium of quitters; but purchased on the counter of consistent application of self-willing can do spirit and an outstanding endurance to persevere with persistent endurance till the end! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese? -- Rick Riordan
Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments? -- Robin Sharma
The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers! -- Leonid Shamkovich
It's easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you're making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don't yet see the light. -- James Arthur Ray
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. -- Caroline Knapp
To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination. -- Robin Sharma
Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles. -- Robert Greene
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. -- Twyla Tharp
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes. -- Ice T
Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery -- Gretchen Rubin
Real living is living for others. -- Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. -- Bruce Lee
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. -- Helen Keller
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery -- Thorstein Veblen
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. -- Kent Nerburn
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. -- Susan B. Anthony
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. -- Michelangelo
Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. -- Kip Winger
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. -- Bruce Lee
It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery. -- John Norman
I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance. -- Stjepan Hauser
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. -- Bruce Lee
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. -- John Hagee
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
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. -- William Langewiesche
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
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. -- Winston Churchill
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. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
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
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. -- Napoleon Hill
Most of my ideas are based on the latest research on productivity, performance and mental mastery - that's why so many iconic companies bring me in to help them grow and win. -- Robin S. Sharma
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
The great thing and 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
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. -- Tariq Ramadan
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image -- Bruce Lee
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. -- Gail Sheehy
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
My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment. -- Michael Merzenich
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical. -- Daniel H. Pink
The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power. -- Gary Zukav
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. -- Dee Dee Myers
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. -- Gerhard Richter
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. -- Margaret Cho
Clarity breeds mastery. -- Robin Sharma
Play is your route to mastery. -- Sara Genn
Practice is the path of mastery. -- George Leonard
Consistency is the DNA of mastery -- Robin Sharma
Detachment is the beginning of mastery. -- Sri Aurobindo
The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery. -- Patricia Aburdene
After mastery comes artistry and not before. -- Gregory Bateson
At the heart of mastery lives consistency -- Robin Sharma
Concentration is at the root of mental mastery. -- Robin Sharma
The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost, -- Sarah Lewis
Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery. -- Robin Sharma
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. -- Anais Nin
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately -- Mikhail Botvinnik
Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability. -- Gretchen Rubin
There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery. -- T. S. Eliot
...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life. -- A.C. Grayling
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. -- James Allen
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted -- Tariq Ramadan
Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others. -- Stephen Covey
The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose! -- Daniel H. Pink
Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times. -- Jim Carrey
Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else. -- Brian Tracy
Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery. -- Bryant H. McGill
Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery. -- Jeff Atwood
Genius is nothing but a mastery of the subject at hand -- Bangambiki Habyarimana

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