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.
Interpretation
True mastery requires complete dedication and commitment to a cause.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes that to achieve true mastery in any field or endeavor, one must fully devote themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally to the cause. It suggests that mastery is not just about skill but also about the depth of commitment one is willing to invest in their passion or purpose.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's passions, I could use this quote to encourage the audience to fully commit to their dreams.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.
There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.
Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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