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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.


Winston Churchill


#air #armies #expression #fleets #good

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.


Arthur Erickson


#bounds #civilization #great #had #mastery

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.


Ivor Novello


#calculated #defeat #every #glaring #hours

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.


Joseph Stiglitz


#basic elements #cry #educated #education #elements

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.


Stephen R. Covey


#self-mastery #change

Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams.


Mike Norton


#bomb #heartbreak #heartbroken #mastery #power

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)


Hilary Austen


#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

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


Thorstein Veblen


#dog #favor #himself #mastery #our

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.


Thomas Mann


#mastery #order #simplification #steps #subject






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