Masters Quotations | Page 5

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.

I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

We should master fear, instead of cultivating it.

It's hard to swallow when people say, "Oh my God, you're a master of something." I say, "No, I'm actually a student of that. I could turn you on to websites for 25 masters, and you'll quickly see that I am their disciple."

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

Be your money's master, not its slave.

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.

Money is the excellent slave and a horrible master.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Practice makes the master.

Death is a master from Germany.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

Magna carta. Master charga.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

Politics makes strange post-masters.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond.

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.

My ultimate goal is to play in the Masters.

He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]

The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent.

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

As the master so the valet.

What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.

I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.

With practice, you will master your own dreams.

Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master.

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.

General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

The guys were pretty bummed out. Everybody felt bad. It's a knock to your ego. Nobody likes to play poorly. I don't care if you're playing in the U.S. Open or the Masters or a local member-guest. Nobody likes shooting bad scores.

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.

And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. (Acts 16:16)

The drawing of a 'Pipeline Wave' started with Billabong as a commission for their 2009 Pipeline Masters campaign. My 'Pipeline Wave' drawing later became the start of my 'Waterworks Collection' for gallery prints.

Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being killed, they loved their murderers. Even as they were being persecuted, they loved their oppressors.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

To change masters is not to be free.

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

The Masters was on my mind all day, but the greens were the quickest I've ever played on. The only places it seemed they had not watered them were where the holes were.

The Masters truly is a tradition unlike any other. It will also be, by far, the most bet on golf event ever. Like last year, we expect to see a lot of people taking advantage of the real-time betting option, meaning that you can adjust your bets as the action progresses.

The Masters Tournament is one of the premier sporting events in the world and once again Delta is proud to offer customers from around the globe the opportunity fly the official airline of the PGA Tour directly to the home of Augusta National. Delta offers customers the most convenient access to Augusta with more weekly departures to and from Augusta Regional Airport than any airline, and convenient one-stop access to more than 200 global destinations from the world's largest airline hub in Atlanta.

The Masters is such a pressure cooker, I think anything would feel relaxed and laid-back by comparison. But I also think it would feel that way no matter when they play this event.

The Masters is going to be a special tournament,

Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...

In a world of bosses, you are your own master

A master passion is the love of news.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

The guitar," I said, "will only obey its master." "Yeah," Cole agreed, "but Grace isn't here." He grinned at me slyly.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

No one masters the heart.