Mastered Quotes
205 quotes by 180 authors
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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
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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
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We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
— Denis Healey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered,
— Zac Posen
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Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.
— Breyten Breytenbach
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There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.
— Terry Pratchett
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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
— Albert Bandura
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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
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Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.
— Unknown Author
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.
— Yasmin Mogahed
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The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
— David A. Heenan
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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
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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: