The highest level of mastery is simplicity. Most information is irrelevant and most effort is wasted, but only the expert knows what to ignore.

I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying...

Mastery is an endless quest to reduce effort without reducing effectiveness.

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.

Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

America is the world’s top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history.

we must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others.

A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study.

Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.

I never realized it was all a game,until I started winning.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?

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...

Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.

In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man.

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

Love is a practice of self-mastery.

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it...

You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

To fall in love for any reason does cause fires of emotion. When we are in love, we ride on a positive energy as compared to not being in love. When we are love, we...

All beings are vast multidimensional masters. They may be exploring divinity or limitation, but they are masters nonetheless. Then it becomes ok to simply allow them their process.

Perhaps we’ll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would...

What we focus on guides our experience; it shapes itself into our thoughts, embodies our feelings and our expands beliefs.Master your attention, so your can master your world.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Life has a way of forcing us to grow in one way or another, constantly. We sometimes try to stem the growth by being unbending..yet, look what happens to the branches of a tree, if...

… In a ROWE* people don’t have schedules.They show up when they want.They don’t have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it...

Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your identity as a...

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you...

The older you get the more you realize that just because someone has an important job doesn’t necessarily mean that they do it responsibly, or are even good at it. There are many ‘D’ students...

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and...

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

You can only arrive at mastery by practicing the techniques you have learned, facing challenges and apprehending them, using to the fullest the tools you have been taught, until they shatter in your hands and...

He (Anwar Sadat) records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in...

Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon,...

Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and...

Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.

At first, the drudgery of mastering your craft is a prison—boring, slow, and with an awareness of how much time you’ll have to put in. But somewhere along your prison sentence, you come to see...

only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.