MASTERY

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in.

                                               -- Washington Gladden

 

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his
hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands
and his brain and his heart is an artist.

                                                   -- Louis Nizer

 

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he
doesn't particularly feel like it.

                                                    -- Alistair Cooke

 

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to
scorn human actions, but to understand.

                                                    -- Baruch Spinoza