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"Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint."
"Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance."
"Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path."
"The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction."
"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation."
"If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction."
"At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path."
"We don't grow older, we grow riper."
"If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was."
"Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense."
"Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else."
"Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure."
"Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance."
"The path to youth takes a lifetime."
"Practice is the path of mastery."
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."
"At the heart of mastery lives consistency"
"Consistency is the DNA of mastery"
"If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living."