I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I don't think there is enough respect in general for the time it takes to write consistently good fiction. Too many people… — Tananarive Due Copy Share Image
As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to… — Victor Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace! Don’t be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to… — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
It should be the privilege of every worker to take advantage of all the improved methods of working that relieve him from… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Respect the building blocks, master the fundamentals, and the potential is unlimited — PJ Ladd Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core,… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later. — Richard Roeper Copy Share Image
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master… — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image
What shall I give Thee, Master? Thou who didst die for me! How can I give less than give of my best,… — David Berg Copy Share Image
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. — Michael Bergdahl Copy Share Image
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda) Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
