Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things."
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Mastery
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James Allen
Author, Philosopher
"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become."
Gerald May
Psychiatrist, Author
"Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery."
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them."
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"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius."
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"Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]."
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"Contrary to popular wisdom, knowledge is not power-it's potential power. Knowledge is not mastery. Execution is mastery. Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week."
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"Detachment is the beginning of mastery."
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"Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it."
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"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
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"If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today."
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"The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property."
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"Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature."
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"The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control"
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"Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world."
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"The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world."
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"Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."
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"Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there."
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"A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready."
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"Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare."
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"Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint."
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"Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance."
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"Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path."
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"The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction."
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