Masters famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
-- Aaron Allston -
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
-- Akira Toriyama -
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
-- Alan Brennert -
The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
-- Alan Keyes -
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
-- Alan Keyes -
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.
-- Alex Katz -
Chess will always be the master of us all.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.
-- Alexander Lowen -
And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
-- Alexander Pope -
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
-- Alfred Sisley -
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
-- Algernon Sidney -
It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
-- Allison Janney -
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps...
-- Amedeo Modigliani -
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
-- Amit Ray -
The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
-- Amory Lovins -
The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.
-- Andrew Davidson -
When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.
-- Andy Andrews -
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.
-- Anneliese van der Pol -
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
-- Anthony de Mello -
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinionsâ€. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.
-- Anthony de Mello -
Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
-- Aravind Adiga -
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
-- Aristophanes -
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
-- Aristotle -
My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words
-- Arthur Scargill -
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.
-- B. J. Palmer -
The person seeing perfection is the Master.
-- Baird T. Spalding -
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
-- Barbara Mertz -
If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
-- Ben Hogan -
We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.
-- Ben Huh -
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master
-- Bent Larsen -
Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.
-- Benvenuto Cellini -
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
-- Bernhard Langer -
A man that can master patience can master anything.
-- Big Sean -
If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
-- Bill Shoemaker -
This will be my 54th trip to Augusta. I got $20,000 for winning the Masters. Now I get $10,000 to go there and eat a free steak.
-- Bob Goalby -
Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.
-- Bobby Darin -
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
-- Brian Tracy -
I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.
-- Carl Honore -
I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.
-- Catherine Fisher -
Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.
-- Cesar Aira -
It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.
-- Charles G.D. Roberts -
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
-- Charles Hermite -
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Methods are the masters of masters.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
-- Charles S. Maier -
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.
-- Christopher Penczak -
You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
-- Chuck D -
I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.
-- Claude Monet -
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
-- Conrad Hall -
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
-- Dallas Willard -
Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe
-- Dan Brown -
Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?
-- Dan Brown -
I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
-- Daniel Pennac -
What shall I give Thee, Master? Thou who didst die for me! How can I give less than give of my best, When Thou hast given all to me! What shall I give Thee, Master? Thou who didst die for me! How can I give less than all of my best, I must give all to Thee!
-- David Berg -
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim
-- David Icke -
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
We have a master who deserves radical sacrifice.
-- David Platt -
Intercession remains the unrivaled master in fulfilling the Great Commission.
-- David Shibley -
Money is a great slave but a horrible master.
-- Daymond John -
I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat
-- Dean Alfange -
There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
-- Debbie Allen -
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
-- Demosthenes -
THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is beautifully written, perfectly paced, expertly structured, and simply unputdownable. Koryta is an absolute master.
-- Deon Meyer -
Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.
-- Diana Wynne Jones -
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
-- Diogenes -
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
-- Don Knotts -
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
-- E. F. Schumacher -
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
-- Ed Balls -
You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!
-- Edouard Manet -
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.
-- El Greco -
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky -
Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it
-- Elizabeth Keckley -
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
-- Elizabeth Wein -
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
-- Ellis Peters -
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
-- Ely Culbertson
