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“Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.”

Focus Addiction Simplicity Complexity Mastery Versus

“Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.”

“I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mean Stories Design Masters Treats Add Entertainment Theme Mastery Layers

Author:David Rockwell

“The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.”

Self Moments Powerful Leader Achieve Habit Discipline Perfection Paid Lifestyle Pursue Awake Each Day Lasting Mastery Great Leader Self Mastery Cultivating

Author:Robin Crow

“The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.”

“What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.”

Principles Superiors Mastery Adaptation Hardness Controlling Things

Book:Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)

“One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intense contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.”

Children Art Ideas Might Used Powerful Vision Technology Pieces Modern Building Computer Intellectual Models Program Mathematics Intense Contact Acquire Mastery

Author:Seymour Papert

“I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.”

People Empathy Mastery

Book:The Guardians: An Elegy

Source: The Guardians: An Elegy

“For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.”

Ifs Mean Children Important Self Helping Parent Steps Struggle Discipline Advantage Perseverance Mastery Self Discipline Unlikely Impatience Sabotage Solicitude

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.”

Heart Light Grace Teacher Discipline Sorrow Devotion Nurse Mastery Affliction Comforter

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery”

Self Awareness Keys Self Awareness Mastery Self Mastery

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.”

“Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.”

World Humans Political Source Mastery Hegemony Human Thought Political Freedom

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.”

Art Ends Mastery

Author:Michelangelo

“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.”

Men Mean Causes Air Sea Economic Waste Gains Importance Improvement Burning Desert Fuel Mastery Wire Mining Transmission Surpassing

Book:The Wireless Tesla

Source: The Wireless Tesla

“It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.”

“In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.”

Giving Feels Writing Years Littles Self Results Demand Happenings Surprise Saving Extras Mastery Self Mastery Stamina

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.”

Ifs Soul Body Passion Training Absolutes Sufficient Acquire Mastery Employed Ingenuity

Author:Rene Descartes

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