Master Quotes

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An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be… — Ayn Rand
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How… — Eugen Herrigel
Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you. — Morihei Ueshiba
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. — Ben Jonson
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and… — Charles Darwin
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers. — Betty Edwards
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious… — Max Euwe
Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth… — Jacques Mieses
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. — Albert Einstein
The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes… — Richard Reti
Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. — Gerald Abrahams
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel… — Edward Weston
A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master. — James Madison
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a… — Ben Jonson
Every Chess master was once a beginner — Irving Chernev
The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master — Bent Larsen
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to… — Aldo Leopold

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