#mastery

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

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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

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