Master Quotes

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. — Gustave Flaubert
To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits… — Joshua Foer
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. — Jane Fonda
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. — Conrad Hall
I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art. — Naomie Harris
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. — Martin Heidegger
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. — Ernest Hemingway
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of… — William Ernest Henley
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise… — Frank Herbert
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in… — Lauryn Hill
It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought… — Tom Hodgkinson
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. — Eric Hoffer
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record… — Edward Hopper
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. — Victor Hugo
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. — Aldous Huxley

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