Mastering Quotes

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. (Henri Cartier-Bresson)
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. View quote
Brian Tracy
Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it. View quote
Lin Carter
Mastering the lawless science of our law, That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. View quote
Peter Senge
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts. View quote
Lester Bangs
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. View quote
Octavia Butler
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. View quote
Winston Churchill
It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration. (Kenneth E. Iverson)
The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless. View quote
Robert Aickman
You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you. View quote
Brett Hoebel
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology. View quote
Gavin Bryars
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. View quote
Rick Pitino
My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere. View quote
Steve Cropper
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. View quote
Viktor Frankl
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have. View quote
John McLauglin
He was a great patriot, a great man; above all, a great American. His country was the ruling, mastering passion of his life from the beginning even unto the end. View quote
Henry Cabot Lodge
The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes itself. Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive. The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this. ...But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
The fear that rules us comes NOT from the outside but from within. Mastering self-control also means stripping the rulers of a prized weapon. (Lupe Fiasco)
Everything turns on mastering the gap between the presupposition (that must be rejected) of a being of the one and the thesis of its 'there is. View quote
Alain Badiou
Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions. View quote
John Carroll
We know, since the theory of relativity at least, that empirical sciences are to some degree free in defining dynamical concepts or even in assuming laws, and that only a system as a whole which includes concepts, coordinating definitions, and laws can be said to be either true or false, to be adequate or inadequate to empirical facts. This "freedom," however, is a somewhat doubtful gift. The manifold of possibilities implies uncertainty, and such uncertainty can become rather painful in a science as young as psychology, where nearly all concepts are open and unsettled. As psychology approaches the state of a logically sound science, definitions cease to be an arbitrary matter. They become far-reaching decisions which presuppose the mastering of the conceptual problems but which have to be guided entirely by the objective facts. View quote
Kurt Lewin
The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra