Definition of Mastery

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Mastery

The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

Contest for superiority.

A masterly operation; a feat.

Specifically, the philosopher's stone.

The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.

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Mastery Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

Mastery passes often for egotism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

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

Mastery Translations

mastery in Latin is dominatus

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