Masters Quotes · Page 50

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I…

— Henry Beeching

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

— Theodor Adorno

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all…

— Calvin Coolidge

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

— James Reston, Jr

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business…

— Jim Rohn

I wanted to become an engineer, or get a masters in business. But I had the opportunity to do films when I…

— Dolph Lundgren

Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't…

— Christopher Titus

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the…

— Miguel de Cervantes

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace…

— Gautama Buddha

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space…

— Roland Barthes

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying?…

— Confucius

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you…

— Anthony de Mello

Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company…

— Stephen Covey

The Lord requires sacrifice, meaning something above and beyond the minimum. The Master spoke of the "second mile" and told us to…

— Hartman Rector, Jr

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and…

— Joan Miro

When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an…

— Meera Menon

...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively…

— Edsger Dijkstra

If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is…

— Michael Ruhlman

What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at…

— Chris McCormack

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed…

— Karl Mannheim

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books…

— Rachilde

I don't think of color, I think that anyone wants a master of their skill and be successful knows no color.

— Maxine Powell

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

On Masters of Sex, especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and youre expected to show up word-perfect.

— Lizzy Caplan

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.

— Frederick Lenz

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

— Stig Dagerman

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

— Thorstein Veblen

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over…

— Sathya Sai Baba

I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.

— Scott Nicholson

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than…

— Margaret Thatcher

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master:…

— Anthony de Mello

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

— E. J. Hughes

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

— John Greenleaf Whittier