Practice is the path of mastery.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

To learn is to change.

Mastery is a journey, and that the master must have the courage to risk failure.

For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.