One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

- Margaret Cho

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

- Stjepan Hauser

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

- Sara Teasdale

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

- Susan B. Anthony

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.

- Orison Swett Marden

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

- Martin Donovan

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

- Michelangelo

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

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.

- Albert Einstein

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

- Kent Nerburn

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

- Kip Winger

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

- John Hagee

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

- John Norman

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

Mastery passes often for egotism.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.

- Chris Milk

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson