Mastered Quotes

Once I got sort of quite good then it was `sit down, take a deep breath and attempt to copy the Beatles`, which is very difficult, although I have to say I`ve mastered it to a tee.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I don`t think this is the most stable environment to have a relationship. Guys that do it, great -- but I haven`t really mastered that part of it.

I don`t think I`ve mastered anything.I`m still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That`s what life is like.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

(on future use of CGI in his films) "Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he` s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it`s when you`re now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you`re controlling every moment of that, it`s just death to me. It`s death to cinema, I can`t watch those Star Wars films, they`re dead things."

I`m happy with it, but I didn`t sing it as well as I should have. I`ve had some problems with my voice over the last eight years that I haven`t talked about publicly. I had a healing process, and it`s a long story, and it goes back to what happened to me with `Celebrity Fit` , and a re-introduction in faith, I guess you`d say. Not to sound corny again, but my friend Johnny Lang and some of his friends put some hands together, and said a little prayer, and amazingly enough my voice is back to where it should be. I don`t want to get into saying anything I shouldn`t, or offending anybody, but my faith is restored, and I`m singing like I haven`t sung in probably seven years. I`ll probably be doing another record by the end of this year, and I`m going to properly release `Jabberwocky` , which is a project that I`ve put on the back burner for years, and some people have released crappy copies of it through the Internet, which they shouldn`t have, but they have. It`s hard to stop that stuff from getting out there. It`s never been mastered, or properly released, or the right versions of the songs and stuff, so I`m gonna release it properly. And, like I said, I`m writing a new record right now. I`m also gonna get involved in some acting this year. Whether that will be live acting, or television, or movies, I don`t know.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Every job is different. I don`t think that I`ve ever had that wonderful feeling when you`ve finished a job or where you feel like you`ve mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you`re satisfied, it`s time to retire.

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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still