Masters Quotes · Page 91

A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.

— Zelig Pliskin

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

— Michael Scott

Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've…

— Twyla Tharp

When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the…

— George Ade

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute.…

— Walt Whitman

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the…

— Joseph Boyden

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a…

— Ben Affleck

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

— Robert Genn

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

— Maggie Q

He who wishes to become a master of color must see, feel, and experience each individual color in its endless combinations with…

— Johannes Itten

Those humble but indomitable workers, to whom later generations referred by the collective name of Baale Masorah, Masters of Tradition, performed in…

— Robert Gordis

The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides,…

— Geoff Mulgan

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be…

— Ahmed Chalabi

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the…

— Glenn Beck

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some…

— Jim Rowe

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

— Lucullus

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly…

— Jack Nicklaus

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

— Aristotle

Be first the master of yourself

— Anonymous

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

— Karl Barth

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

— Epictetus

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites…

— Alexander MacLaren

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how…

— Arthur Rubinstein

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as…

— Anthony Daniels

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management.…

— Alexander Elder

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses…

— Ogden Nash

And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this…

— Charles Dickens

I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere,…

— Ingmar Bergman

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for…

— Thomas Eakins

Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.

— Pliny the Younger

I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that…

— James A. Michener

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man,…

— Malcolm X

power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a…

— Elizabeth Janeway

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

— Steve Buscemi

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it…

— Karl Marx