Masterly Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they…
— Erik Erikson
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe…
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
— Clifton Fadiman
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Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and…
— Le Corbusier
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Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether…
— Walter Russell
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No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work…
— Vasily Smyslov
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Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and…
— Le Corbusier
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The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble…
— Alexander Rodchenko
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The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.
— James Mackintosh
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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the…
— Jane Austen
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...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than…
— Edith Wharton
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Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the…
— Robert Jordan
Who Wrote These Masterly Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Masterly Quotes as follows: