Mastered Quotes

205 quotes by 180 authors

Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation. — Denis Healey
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. — Lewis Mumford
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study… — Nicolas Chamfort
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true… — Annie Dillard
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,… — Marjorie Garber
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own… — Ron Howard
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered, — Zac Posen
Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable. — Breyten Breytenbach
There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime. — Terry Pratchett
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — Albert Bandura
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer. — Kent Beck
Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with. — Unknown Author
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. — H. P. Blavatsky
Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered. — Yasmin Mogahed
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered. — David A. Heenan
For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then what does it… — Gautama Buddha
We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this… — John Welwood

Who Wrote These Mastered Quotes

180 authors contributed a total of 205 Mastered Quotes, led by these top contributors: