Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Mastery Quotes
ClarityEnduranceLegacyMastery Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
AuthenticityEntertainmentHumilityMastery My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
AmbitionConfidenceExcellenceMasterySelf Belief I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.
DevelopmentEducationLifeguardingMasteryPhysical Fitness Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
ArtistryDedicationMasteryPassionPerseverance Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.
ConcisenessMasteryOriginalityTimelessnessWisdom The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
GrowthIncremental ImprovementMasteryPracticeSelf-Discipline Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Attention to DetailMasteryPerfectionPracticeQuality Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
CollaborationCreativityMasteryProductionVision All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.
FocusLimitationMasterySpecialization Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
CreativityExpertiseHumilityInspirationMastery I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That's God talking.
ControlCourageFearMasteryResilience Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
EducationMasteryNatureTechnology Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
DisciplineHumilityInner StrengthMasteryPower He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
InnovationMasteryMinimalismSimplicity You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
CommitmentExpertiseMasteryPerseverance I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
ConfrontationFearInsightMasteryUnderstanding I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
ExpertiseHumilityMasteryReflectionSkepticism Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
CommitmentDedicationMastery 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.
AuthenticityCreativityIntuitionMasteryPassion Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
