"Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'"
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"One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield."
"It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland."
"No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life."
"When you're really young, you're young for life."
"There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it."
"Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little."
"To know oneself is to study oneself in action, which is relationship."
"Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive."
"Mastery passes often for egotism."
"Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven."
"Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts Productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world."
"Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement."
"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."
"Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving."
"Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take."
"Concentration is at the root of mental mastery."
"Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience"
"Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day."
"One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself."