A Quote by George Leonard

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

George Leonard

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George Leonard
American - Writer
August 9, 1923 - January 6, 2010

The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Practice is the path of mastery.

George Leonard

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

George Leonard

Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

Sarah Lewis

The quality of your practice is ultimately measured by its effect on the quality of your life. In other words, mastery in yoga is mastery of life.

Rod Stryker

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

Benjamin Bloom

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Susan B. Anthony

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

Christopher Zeeman

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Friedrich Nietzsche

And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Daniel Quinn

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Leonardo da Vinci

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

The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.

Robin Crow

The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.