mastery

While the trio’s work suggests that less seasoned workers often feel as though they have little to offer, asking for help is giving someone else an opportunity to be of service and to tap into their own sense of expertise, even mastery.

Mark Twain famously said courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

In most battles, the rounds focus on battlers tearing each other down or hyping their own mastery of battle skills.

Here, the founder of the law and literature movement shows his mastery in bringing literature to philosophical bloom.

“It was no brute whom Smiley was pursuing with such mastery, no unqualified fanatic after all, no automaton,” le Carré writes.

I think that you need a very deep technical and cultural mastery before proposing to change the rules of a given system.

Was it his moment of iron self-mastery that brought her with outstretched, clinging arms towards him?

He seemed to pass under the mastery of a great mood that was a composite reproduction of all the moods of his forgotten boyhood.

The idea, therefore, of expansive steam was not new, but the useful mastery of it was.

He did not easily acquire the mastery of this orchestra, but his preference for it was already established.

But surely the mastery which is obtained through fear is an unsatisfactory sort of thing.