mastery Quotes

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

I rewrote the ending to 'Farewell to Arms,' the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.