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Mastery is comprehensive knowledge or skill

• Mastery: Comprehensive knowledge or skill in a particular subject or activity. Oxford Dictionary  
• Mastery: If someone has a mastery of something, they are extremely skilled at it. Cambridge Dictionary
• Mastery: The state of being master; power of command or control. Dictionary.com
• Mastery: Knowledge and skill that allows you to do, use, or understand something very well. Merriam Webster
• Skill,  Excellence, Greatness, Learning,  Talent,  Expertise,  Genius

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Mastery is a way of doing things, even small things  

• The way we do small things determines the way that we do everything. If we execute our minor tasks well, we will also excel at our large efforts. Mastery then becomes our way of being. Robin Sharma
• Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work. Walter Russell

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Master the art of living  

• Living is an art. The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice. Erich Fromm
• People with a high level of personal mastery approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. They do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.  Peter Senge
• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. Paul Klee
• Life as an art

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Master yourself  

• He that would govern others, first should be The Master of himself. Philip Massinger
• He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. Lao Tzu
• He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king. John Milton
• He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city. Proverbs 16:32
• If we want all the joys of outward success, first we must master ourselves. Let the public acclaim flow out of our own self- mastery. Michael Gelb
• If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. Thomas Kempis
• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu
• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. Leonardo da Vinci
• To be free is to be the master of ourselves. Matthieu Ricard
• The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery – not over nature but of ourselves. Rachel Carson  

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Master your mind  

• Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. Zen saying
• You brain shall be your servant instead of your master, you will rule it instead of allowing it to rule you. Charles E. Popplestone
• You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer
• Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. Napoleon Hill  
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Master inner peace and equanimity  

• When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self- control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. Marcus Aurelius
• Inner peace,  Equanimity

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Master your fear  

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Mark Twain
• If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones
• Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery. Mary Balogh
• Fear,  Courage

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Master your passions  

• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Master patience  

• Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace. Brian L. Weiss
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Master pain  

• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anaïs Nin
• Pain

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Master the art and practice of love  

• You don’t need to justify your love, you don’t need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master. Miguel Ruiz
• Love

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Master time  

• A mastery of time allows you to squeeze the maximum possible achievement in the direction of your dreams out of every hour, every day – without going crazy. Tony Robbins
• Time,  Time management

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Mastery is a life long journey and process …  

• We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. George Leonard
• 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. George Leonard
• In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the first rung. Never think of yourself as an all-knowing, perfected master; you must continue to train daily with your friends and students and progress together in the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba
• It took me a lifetime. Pablo Picasso
• Life is a journey

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… a process that includes failure  

• The ordinary person sees a failure as an error. Someone pursuing mastery sees failure as part of the process. Robin Sharma
• Failure

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Mastery requires daily investment, not quick-fix cramming  

• Obsessive goal orientation. The desire of most people today for quick, sure, and highly visible results is perhaps the deadliest enemy of mastery. George Leonard
• To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind. Stephen Covey

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Mastery requires a strong commitment  

• Commit today to becoming a master. Ask yourself what are you best at? What things do you do that when you do them you feel happy and at peace–and sense your creativity and gifts pouring out of you. We get the life we’ve settled for. We get the brains we’ve earned. Start looking for those things in your work (and life) that you can become a Picasso at. Life shifts once you do. Robin Sharma
• Commitment

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Be willing to pay the price for mastery  

• On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery . . . . For having a specialty one pays by also being the victim of this specialty. But you would have it otherwise — cheaper and fairer and above all more comfortable — isn’t that right, my dear contemporaries? Friedrich Nietzsche
• Self-mastery comes through denial of the little things.

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• 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. Gail Sheehy
• Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. Theodore Roosevelt
• Real self-worth comes from mastery, from getting good at something. It doesn’t matter what. Then you don’t have to worry about empty compliments. You don’t worry about what other people think. You have self-respect. Albert Borris

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Attain mastery through immersing yourself in what you love  

• It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
• We only do well the things we like doing. Colette
• The very fact that you enjoy something means that you probably have within yourself the capability to be excellent in that area. Brian Tracy
• I’m a firm believer in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don’t enjoy. Jack Nicklaus
• People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. Joe Gibbs
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
• Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. Zig Ziglar
• You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. Maya Angelou
• It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.  Orison Swett Marden
• Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin
• You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success. Chef Jiro
• Do what you love,  Immerse yourself in what you do

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Attain mastery through an openness to learning  

• People with a high level of personal mastery approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. They do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.  Peter Senge
• Learning,  Openness

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Attain mastery through daily practice  

• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything. Daniel Levitin
• At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. George Leonard
• How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. George Leonard
• Consistency of practice is the mark of the master. George Leonard
• Repetition makes the master. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Practice makes the master. Patrick Rothfuss
• Practice

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Attain mastery through perseverance  

• It’s easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it. George Leonard
• Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light. James Arthur Ray
• Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life. George Leonard
• The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. Janet Erskine Stuart
• Perseverance

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Attain mastery through focus …  

• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. John Haggai
• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein
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… especially focus on your strengths  

• Being well-rounded is highly over-rated. Focus on developing your true strengths.  Get better at what you’re already best at – that’s how you enter your mastery zone. Competency is for suckers.  Danielle LaPorte
• Grow your strengths

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Attain mastery by following your own style  

• The secret is to find your own unique style and talents and bring them forth. No one has ever attained mastery by replicating another. Alen Cohen
• Be who you are,  Style

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Attain mastery by bucking the trend  

• If you’re planning to embark on a master’s journey, you might find yourself bucking current trends in American life. Our hyped- up consumerist society is engaged, in fact, in an all out war on mastery. George Leonard
• You cannot attain mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do. Roger McDonald

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Attain mastery by devoting yourself to your purpose  

• Master Your Craft. Be the best at the God-given skills and talents that allow you to fully express your life purpose. Brad Swift
• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein
• Purpose,  Devotion

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Attain mastery through creating clarity and vision  

• Clarity is the DNA of mastery. Robin Sharma
• Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. Peter Senge
• Clarity,  Vision

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Attain mastery through stretching yourself  

• Creativity + audacity = mastery. When creating your goals, dream and stretch yourself so you feel a little nervous and that will be your step to mastery.  Robin Sharma
• Stretch your comfort zone

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Attain mastery through hard work and giving your all  

• If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo
• To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem. Maurice Young
• There is one single thread binding my way together… the way of the Master consists in doing one’s best… that is all. Confucius
• Hard work,  Do your best

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Attain mastery through simplification  

• Complexity is easy, simplicity requires mastery. Peter Cajander
• Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. Christopher Zeema
• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann
• Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann
• Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery. Dan Millman
• Simplicity,  Simple living

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Attain mastery through self-acceptance  

• You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life. Steve Maraboli
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Attain mastery through play  

• All work and no play doesn’t just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. Joline Godfrey
• The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. Erik H. Erikson
• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.  James A. Michener
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Attain mastery through discipline  

• First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if “I am in the mood” may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art. Erich Fromm
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Appreciate mastery in others and let it inspire you  

• Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential. Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
• Inspiration

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Attain mastery through teaching  

• If you want to learn a thing, read that; if you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that. Yogi Bhajan
• Teaching,  Learning

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