Mastery Quotes

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well" "What worries you masters you" "The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best." "Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master." "Everyone can master a grief but he that has it." "Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade" "One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels." "Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool." "Avoid banality; mastery is about complexity up to the edge of discomfort" "Once you understand what excellence is all about, you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline." "In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else" "Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love" "Excellence is my presence, never tense, never hesitant"