Masters Quotes · Page 73

Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger…

— Royal Robbins

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

— George Santayana

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to…

— Evelyn Waugh

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went…

— Cy Coleman

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes…

— Francis Quarles

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

— Orison Swett Marden

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

— Rudolph A. Marcus

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master…

— Ridley Scott

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which…

— John Masefield

I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now,…

— Marina of Aguas Santas

Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something…

— Gil Scott-Heron

France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a…

— Michel Ocelot

Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising…

— David Farland

To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower."…

— Anthony de Mello

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own…

— Anonymous

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character…

— Plato

It’s interesting to look at your children as line-in Zen masters who can put their finger on places where you’re resistant, or…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her…

— B. B. King

At first, when an idea, a poem, or the desire to write takes hold of you, work is a pleasure, a delight,…

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my…

— Harpo Marx

I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart…

— Aravind Adiga

If you have made covenants, keep them. If you haven’t made them, make them. If you have made them and broken them,…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I have no ambition. I just have a very loving duty given to me in my spiritual heritage of the Himalayan Masters…

— Swami Veda Bharati

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

— Alexander Theroux

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

— Jules Verne

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

— Confucius

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

— Robert McKee

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

— Diana Gabaldon

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

— Anonymous

A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key…

— David Allen

“Masters" are those who have simply started to see the difference in what they have learned and are yet to understand ...”

— Alan B Jones

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

— Rebecca Miller

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

— George F. Kennan

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

— LeCrae

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze