"Mastery is often taken for egotism."
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"There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men."
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"All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day."
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"The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It's not that you never have fear, but that you don't let your fears stop you."
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"There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery."
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"The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost."
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"Mastery is in constantly wanting to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be."
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"Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery."
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"Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity."
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"Clarity proceeds Mastery!"
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"Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments?"
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"Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors."
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"To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions."
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"Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible."
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"Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj."
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"A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes."
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"I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself."
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"Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety."
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"Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times."
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"two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there."
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