mastery Quotes

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.