Masters Quotes · Page 55

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

— Alan Watts

I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

— Jack Kerouac

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is…

— Ben Jonson

What was I supposed to say?…did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.” (Analects 2.11)

— Confucius

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

— Robert Genn

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

— Bill Vaughan

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I used to think if I married Master Jem—” Sophie picked at the blanket, then looked up and smiled bleakly. “You haven’t…

— Cassandra Clare

Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces…

— Robert Schumann

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers…

— Gore Vidal

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it…

— Paul Valery

Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our…

— Lottie Moon

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest…

— Ellis Marsalis, Jr

The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh.…

— Malcolm X

Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or…

— Ben H. Winters

Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what…

— Jerome Bruner

. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored…

— Sojourner Truth

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has…

— Bennie Maupin

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the…

— Eugene Delacroix

If you have a problem or desire a healing, try this exercise before falling asleep. Catch yourself at that point just before…

— Harold Klemp

Bullies are masters at holding others responsible for their misbehavior. Instead of claiming "the devil made me do it", they argue "You…

— Sam Horn

“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace! Don’t be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to…

— Allan Rufus

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it…

— Jack Nicklaus

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work…

— Erykah Badu

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what…

— Napoleon Hill

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the…

— Miyamoto Musashi

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to…

— Jedediah Berry

I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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

A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together"…

— Anthony de Mello

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is…

— Ogden Nash

It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may…

— Michael Gerard Bauer