Master Quotes - page 9

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest. (Christian D. Larson)
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages. View quote
Robertson Davies
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book. View quote
Peter Greenaway
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. View quote
Michelangelo
I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!" View quote
Chaim Potok
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
Since Don Quixote de la Mancha is a crazy fool and a madman, and since Sancho Panza, his squire, knows it, yet, for all that, serves and follows him, and hangs on these empty promises of his, there can be no doubt that he is more of a madman and a fool than his master. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs. View quote
Anton Chekhov
the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things”. (Herbert Marcuse)
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process. View quote
Bill Moyers
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Everyone can master a grief, but he that has it. View quote
William Shakespeare
Master, go one, and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. View quote
William Shakespeare
Let every man be master of his timeTill seven at night. View quote
William Shakespeare
Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. View quote
Hugh Latimer
Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me. View quote
Arthur Symons
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. View quote
Sallust
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend. (Margaret Thatcher)
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal To be master of the world just that day. View quote
Pierre Corneille
The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci