#mastery

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#efforts #enable #express #her #him

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#content #current #effective #experience #mastery

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#body #divinity #else #emotional #everybody

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dog #favor #himself #mastery #our

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

#another #closing #door #even #feeling

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes. ↗

— Ice T

#crowd #great #i #kids #know

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#absence #consist #does #his #life

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#domination #fall #false #manliness #mastery

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#mastery #me #my own #own #sole