Master Quotes

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When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have… — Milla Jovovich
...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'. — David Icke
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master! — Thomas Carlyle
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks… — Bent Larsen
To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football… — Fletcher Knebel
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain… — Carlos E. Asay
You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game… — Lou Brock
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be… — James F. Cooper
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man… — Edward Sapir
Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the… — Jim Wallis
A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his… — Sathya Sai Baba
Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy. — Garry Kasparov
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so… — Malcolm Gladwell
You're a master on blues piano. The real deal. — Jeffrey Wright
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and… — Ian McDiarmid
My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing. — Don Knotts
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are… — William Shakespeare
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist… — Mao Zedong

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