It is only perfection
It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole…’Talent is Work’ Galina Ulanova
Mastery
Ah, mastery… what a
Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. Gail Sheehy
He who has mastery
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: ‘Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your … Read more
Avoidance of mistakes is
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Assuming that his talent
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. Eugen Herrigel
Often nothing keeps the
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him …. How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. … Read more
Knowledge of the name
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god. Ernst Cassirer
Only by following out
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of ‘the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,’ and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which … Read more
The playing adult steps
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. Erik Erikson
The general verdict among
The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of … Read more