Mastery Quotes

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

Strength, True, Person

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Courage, Fear, Absence

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul Jones

Faith, Fear, Become

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

Good, Power, Today

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Him, Give, Goes

Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Often, Egotism, Passes

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

Life, Wisdom, Mind

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo

Hard, Wonderful, Knew

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Happiness, Absence

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Nature, Self, Adequate

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

Feeling, Light, Another

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

Nature, Him, Her

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

Family, Struggle, Forget

Social media companies must combine their mastery of the latest in real-time, location based or augmented reality technologies in the service of clear and consistent storytelling.
Simon Mainwaring

Reality, Service, Social

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
Arthur Erickson

Time, Great, Technology

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas Mann

Order, Toward, Subject

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

Change, Great, Enough

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Science, Mean

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

Great, Words, Kids

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
John Norman

Woman, Another, Her

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
Kent Nerburn

Fall, Belief, False

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
Danny Glover

Live, Children, Talk

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

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.
Leonard Orr

Mind, Emotional, Healing

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Sara Teasdale

Spirit, Though, Feeble

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

Minds, Themselves, Weak

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
Richard Powers

Science, Control, Face

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Ivor Novello

Love, Waiting, Long

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
Cathy McMorris

Experience, Science, Both

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

Politics, Today, Fairness

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