Mastered Quotes

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try, Grow, Unless

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao Tzu

Powerful, May, Others

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins

Time, True, Understand

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw

Person, Profession, Skeptic

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Night, Themselves

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson

Learning, Weed, Grow

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
Neil Armstrong

Science, Far, Year

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart

Life, God, Person

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather

Yourself, Problems, Here

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Words, Fact, Read

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick

Problem, Talk, Create

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen

Prayer, Child, Himself

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
James Galway

Real, Self, Trying

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas Chamfort

Happy, Person, Cannot

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Leon Trotsky

Noticed, Technique, Case

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
James Cash Penney

Himself, Whether, Shall

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg

Best, Business, Game

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
Rachel McAdams

Funny, Morning, Art

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Good, Art, Human

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold

Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross

Religion, Time, Science

Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.
Alfred Molina

Time, Job, Feeling

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.
Stephen Hunter

Eyes, Away, Action

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.
Sean Hannity

Age, Art, Parents

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.
Joe Elliott

Technology, Live, Play

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
Daniel Hannan

Home, Different, Ability

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
Aloe Blacc

Made, Understand, Everyone

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Carl Orff

Time, Heart, Children

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