Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and prowess. -- Joesgoals.com

There really is no learning without doing. -- Roger Schank, Engines for Education

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Greek philosopher Epicurus

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing. -- Joesgoals.com

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ~Swami Vivekananda

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart