Eliot Pattison Quotes

What is the way of human life, the student asked. An open-eyed man falling down a well, the master replied.

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• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

• Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Artist
  • Master
  • Material

• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Power

• We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Master
  • Regardless
  • Salesman

• The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.

  

  Finis Mitchell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Truth

• The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

  

  Aristotle
  • Genius
  • Thing
  • Master

• There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Master
  • Prudence

• I'll destroy you. I am the master of disaster.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Destroy
  • Master
  • Disaster

• But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Earth
  • Exist
  • Human Life

• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

  

  Epictetus
  • Person
  • Master
  • Angering

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Master
  • Understands

• You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Education
  • Security

• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Dream
  • Words
  • Dad

• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Chance
  • inspirational
  • Inspiring

• You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Important
  • Miserable
  • Public Life

• I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Writer
  • Fiction
  • Biography

• What is the way of human life, the student asked. An open-eyed man falling down a well, the master replied.

  

  Eliot Pattison
  • Master
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