Master Quotes
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By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.
Emanuel Lasker
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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Nathanael Emmons
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I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
Norm Sloan
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It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner
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I'm one of the lucky ones. People get Master's Degree and they say, 'I don't know what I wanted to do,' I knew I always wanted to do. Isn't that nice?
Kaye Ballard
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October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.
Elizabeth Enright
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The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination.
Christian D. Larson
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To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.
Alberto Villoldo
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Always remember, money is a servant; you are the master. Be very careful not to reverse that equation, because many people of high intelligence have already done so, to their great detriments. Unfortunately, many of these poor souls loved money and used people, which violated one of the most basic laws governing true financial success. You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse!
Bob Proctor
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
Niccolò Paganini
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The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
Richard Serra
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The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.
Ray Park
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Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
John Calvin
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Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
Albert Camus
