Quotes with mastery

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

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  • Joan Didion The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Albert Einstein 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
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Mann You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear .
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Haggai 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 Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Michelangelo If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Caroline Knapp 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
    American writer and columnist
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Mastery passes often for egotism.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Buddha Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Thomas Mann Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Arthur Erickson 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
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Napoleon Hill 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
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Anais Nin The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Tony Buzan Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.
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  • Seneca 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.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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