mastery Quotes

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.