Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
No man is free who cannot control himself.
There is no royal road to geometry.
Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better than any other the true art of navigation.
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. No one has given so much care to the study of composition as I.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
The secret to high performance and satisfaction — at work, at school, and at home — is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
