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  • Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

    Lying   Waiting   Heaven  
  • It’s easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you’re making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light.

  • I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.499, Penguin
  • The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?

    Mean   Fighting   Son  
  • Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

    Education   Time   Moving  
  • Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

    Self   Crucible   Mastery  
  • Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

    God   Grace   Mastery  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.282, Courier Corporation
  • Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

    Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage
  • Mastery is the natural result of mindfulness.

  • 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.

    Nature   Mean   Science  
    Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
  • Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

    Success   Block   Goal  
    FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 24, 2011
  • One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intense contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.

    Art   Children   Powerful  
    "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas". Book by Seymour Papert, 1980.
  • When you're really young, you're young for life.

    Mastery   Young  
  • The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

    "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.
  • If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

    Psych   Over You   Way  
    Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.228, Mango Media Inc.
  • 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.

    Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.
  • Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.

    Mean   Blood   Law  
    Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
  • Consistency is the DNA of mastery

    FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 04, 2011
  • Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

    Flower   Mean   Maturity  
  • Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.212, Tuttle Publishing
  • I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.

    William Langewiesche (1998). “Inside the Sky: A Meditation on Flight”, Pantheon
  • A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

    Spiritual   Strong   Self  
  • A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

    Art   Men   Mastery  
  • All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

    Joline Godfrey (1992). “Our wildest dreams: women entrepreneurs making money, having fun, doing good”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

    Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.

  • He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

  • The path to youth takes a lifetime.

    Mastery   Path   Youth  
  • We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

  • People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

    Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.14, Random House
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