mastery

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted.

The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to gain the mastery over your talents and gifting.

Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.

You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work _ You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That__ the secret of success.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

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

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

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.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

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

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

A sous-chef with dreams of her own restaurant empire may have mastered the art of classical French sauce making, but not yet have developed the signature cooking style she imagines as the cornerstone of her own chain of restaurants. She gauges her progress not only by whether she is moving toward her aspirations, but also by her improving skills. Our chef may not yet have the stature of Chef Auguste Escoffier or Emeril Lagasse, but she can remember a time when she could not name the five French mother sauces, let alone execute them. She's made progress. Appreciating the skills she has developed is a marker along the path toward her culinary aspirations. The sense of accomplishment that accompanies improved skills is one of the rewards we reap when we dedicate ourselves to mastery.

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.