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“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”

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

“LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman”

Effort Quality Sea Skills Demand Rivers Weight Size Fishes Boat Dependent Lakes Fishing Concentration Mastery Fisherman

Author:Charles Ritz

“Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.”

Hard Technology Hard Work Skills Complexes Simplicity Mastery

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.”

“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.”

Feelings Light Doors Skills Satisfying Mastery Closing

Book:New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time

Source: New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time

“Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.”

Looks Natural Influence Talent Fame Skills Assuming Arise Broads Mastery Entertainers Natural Talent

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain... For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love.”

Mind Looks Long Art Hands Lying Imagination Planets Skills Embrace Mortals Vain Touched Horizon Infinity Mastery Comprehension Faust

Author:Susan Kay