Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment. — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings. — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable. — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook Copy Share Image
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In your short stay in Atlanta, I'm sure you saw that there was great competition between Martin's [Luther King] father and John… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus” — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her. — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image