33 quotes
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else I only try to dance better than myself”
— Baryshnikov
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery not over nature but of ourselves”
— Rachel Carson
“The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.”
— Robin Sharma
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“No one is free who is not master of himself and mastery begins in solitude”
— Epictetus
“The best fighter is never angry.”
— Lao Tzu
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
— Mark Twain
“Lesser artists borrow great artists steal”
— Igor Stravinsky
“If heaven had granted me five more years I could have become a real painter”
— Katsushika Hokusai
“The art of losing isnt hard to master”
— Elizabeth Bishop
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Someday after mastering the winds the waves the tides and gravity we shall harness the energies of love for peace.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“What worries you, masters you.”
— John Locke
“Knowing how to simplify is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
“Gratitude drives happiness. Happiness boosts productivity. Productivity reveals mastery. And mastery inspires the world.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man and the master of a fool simplicity reveals the difference”
— Seneca
“What worries you masters you”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.”
— Tony Robbins
“Simplicity is complexity resolved into harmony”
— Constantin Brancusi
“Where should the swordsman fix his mind nowhere let the body and limbs work themselves out according to a discipline they have undergone”
— Takuan Soho
“Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity I would not give a fig but for the simplicity that lies on the other side I would give my life”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“In limitations he first shows himself the master and the law can only give us freedom through simplicity”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I do the same thing over and over improving bit by bit”
— Jiro Ono
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.”
“Before we can talk about simplicity we must understand complexity”
— Konosuke Matsushita
“I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul”
— William Ernest Henley
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