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Letter "M" » mastery
«Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
| Keywords:
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«Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Order
| Keywords:
first steps, mastery, simplification
«Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.»
Author: Walter F. Mondale
(Lawyer, Politician, Vice President)
| About:
Politics,
Television
| Keywords:
fairness, mastery, warmed
«Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown»
«Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
| Keywords:
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«Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Meditate.Live purely. Be quiet.Do your work with mastery.Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!Shine»
«On this earth, one pays dearly for every kind of mastery . . . . For having a specialty one pays by also being the victim of this specialty. But you would have it otherwise -- cheaper and fairer and above all more comfortable -- isn't that right, my dear contemporaries?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
above all, cheaper, comfortable, contemporaries, dear, dearly, fairer, For every, mastery, otherwise, pays, specialties, specialty, The Contemporary, The Victim, victim
«Mastery passes often for egotism.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
egotism, mastery, passes
«I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Americanism, apprenticeship, Economy of, mastery, midnight, phrenology, raps, shallow, tables
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