Mastery Quotes

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

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

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

“First master the fundamentals.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“My thing is discipline, discipline, discipline.”

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

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

“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.”

“You have to be a student of the game to be a master of the game.”

“I don't think you can ever be a 'master' of anything. You're always a student.”