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.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone.
frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.
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