“Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantTryingMayPracticeFailingMastersBedApproachWiserCompetitorsKeep Learning Author:Charlie Munger
“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.” HardHandsEyeCertainFallForgetBehindsPracticeSuccessfulFailingMastersDegreesDenyDrawingPainterHis EyesFacility Author:Walter J. Phillips
“We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.” ShouldFirstsCountryFoundCitiesEnemyFailingLandMastersPreparedStrangerEnterpriseDisguiseBe PreparedHostile Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.” IfsUseActionAcceptingMoralFailingMastersTestsPreparedCraftsDeceptionOpponentsRulersSubmitDefeatedBe PreparedScrutinyTreachery Author:J. M. Coetzee
“Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail.” IfsMindMayDoePerfectPrinciplesFailingGroupsMastersMembersLettersHarmonyInstructionPerfect HarmonyMastermind Author:Napoleon Hill
“I'd always thought that heavy metal - what I knew of it, anyway - was for tragic losers with acne and inch-thick glasses who fantasised about slaying dragons and riding Harleys, failing to realise at the time that the only loser was me. Fortunately, a good friend of mine played me 'Battery' from Metallica's Master Of Puppets album and the scales fell instantly from my eyes. It was a total revelation.” EyeFailingMinesMastersGlassesAlbumsHeavyScalesRevelationsTragicDragonsRealisingLoserMetalsThickInchesRidingGood FriendPuppetsBatteriesHeavy MetalMetallicaHarleyAcneSlaying Author:Joel McIver
“But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.” OrderCommunityNaturalPracticePlansFailingMastersAriseUnpredictableAdaptingAbility To Adapt Book:The Oregon Experiment Source: The Oregon Experiment
“Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.” WorldTryingYearsLongProcessRealizingCreativityPathFailingJourneyWillingMastersStandardsPerfectionCompareDestructiveMasteryTry AgainHigh StandardsWilling To Try Book:Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
“There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.” YearsWellsSometimesBornPleasureLordFailingMastersAdvantageLaysSatisfactionBurdenWoundsCharmPensRejoiceFar AwayLighters Author:Petrarch
“Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.” ShowsPastSpiritualTurnsChurchPrayerFailingMastersPrayingMembersMeetingsPastorOffendedRehearsalChurch MembersPrayer Meeting Author:Leonard Ravenhill