Top 347 Mastered Quotes & Sayings

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

You're trying to do big things and you ain't mastered the little stuff!

Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

I learned failure early and mastered it.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.

A person who has great wealth will still be unhappy if he hasn't also mastered gratitude!

I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a hole in the earth and think of the possibilities. So many things can be planted in your lifetime, skills that once mastered will bear fruit forever. . . . Pluck up some enthusiasm for the business of life, for the loamy matter that supports us all. Become a handyman and spread your skills wide, digging deeper into the earth's crust to uncover its secrets.

When man has mastered money he shall have mastered not only his economic problem of prosperity but also his political problem, for he will see that money has no place in state functions, and, the money power being entirely in his own hands, he will easily master the state and clearly define its services. Thus money must be seen as the means of mastery of all economic and political problems. Until we have mastered money we shall not master any of our problems. Not money, but a false money system, is the root of all evil.

You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

He [Lincoln] had mastered it {the Bible] absolutely...mastered it so that he became almost 'a man of one Book', who knew that Book and who instinctively put into practice what he had been taught therein.

Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.

The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.

My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.

Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.

The blessing in life is when you find the torture you are comfortable with. That's marriage, it's kids, it's work, it's exercise. Find the torture you're comfortable with and you'll do well. You've mastered that, you've mastered life.

I don't know if I'd mastered that documentary format, but I wanted to move on from it.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

and I have mastered the speed and strength which is the armor of the world.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

Money should be mastered, not served.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.