Masters Quotations

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious.

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.

Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

He is great enough that is his own master.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

What we want is to become masters in our own house.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

With my baby due in the next two weeks, it is not possible for me to come. I wish the event well and am sure it will be a great success and I hope to qualify for next year's Masters Cup in Shanghai,

To play all four rounds at the Masters would be one of the greatest achievements of my career.

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.