The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
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Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
quote by Leonardo da Vinci
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We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
quote by Clarence Day
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With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
quote by Frederick Soddy
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
quote by Henri Matisse
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Destiny (Terzanelle)
Destiny sparks thundering through,
my life with an iron rod
and day after day I stand not knowing what to do
as if waiting for the presence of a god
to control
my life with an iron rod
and wherever I go wherever I stroll
destiny is still taking mastery
to control
as if the power that it wields, outreaches me
as if I am a slave with a curse
destiny is still taking mastery
of times in better and in worse
always pre-empting everything
as if I am a slave with a curse
and I am driven to wherever its whip rings cracking.
Destiny sparks thundering through,
always pre-empting everything
and day after day I stand not knowing what to do.
poem by Gert Strydom
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
quote by Sara Teasdale
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Lo! Victress On The Peaks
LO! Victress on the peaks!
Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world,
(The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee;)
Out of its countless beleaguering toils, after thwarting them all;
Dominant, with the dazzling sun around thee,
Flauntest now unharm'd, in immortal soundness and bloom--lo! in these
hours supreme,
No poem proud, I, chanting, bring to thee--nor mastery's rapturous
verse;
But a book, containing night's darkness, and blood-dripping wounds,
And psalms of the dead.
poem by Walt Whitman
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It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.
quote by John Norman
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
quote by Thomas Mann
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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
quote by Thorstein Veblen
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Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
quote by Kip Winger
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
quote by Michelangelo
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
quote by Michelangelo
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Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
quote by Kent Nerburn
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The Same Room
It was the same room,
The same favours,
The same rights as your feet.
Agreeing must take on mastery
Of beliefs and houses are kept.
To order heaviness creates disunited
Manners of a procedure,
The processes are the same,
We announce the names
That we master forming the goals
To enlighten the few who have woes
In the light and darkness.
Let trees found the beliefs
Of nature that steals nothing
From the one who owns property.
poem by Naveed Akram
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