Mastery Quotes

“No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.”

“First master the fundamentals.”

“Only one thing counts: to be a master in your own house.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

“I don't practice to get better. I practice to not get worse.”

“He who is master of himself is greater than he who is master of a city.”

“Let no one believe that he can be a good architect, who is not a great scholar.”

“You have to be willing to be a fool to be a master.”

“My thing is discipline, discipline, discipline.”

“You can't be a world-class player if you're not a world-class student of the game.”

“Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.”

“I’ve been photographing for seventy years, and I still don’t know how to do it.”

“The safe man is he who has acquired a technique.”

“A game has to be easy to learn and impossible to master.”

“Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.”

“When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your master.”

“A conductor must have the score in his head, not his head in the score.”

“What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on the student to be the best student he can be.”

“Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.”

“Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never be a good chess player.”