Master Quotes
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There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
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The master understands that the universe is forever out of control.
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The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Beyond the hills, a master is who knows our secret names. With bell and bones, he’ll call us home, winter, fall or spring.
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As the master so the valet.
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Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master.
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Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat." I grinned. "I've noticed." Reyn's face tightened and Nell flushed, looking embarrassed. "It's an equestrian term." "Really? I thought you were talking about his ass.
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Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
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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?
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No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
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I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.
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Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.
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Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers who play on a par with a master. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.
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He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
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Picasso.. ..the master.. ..being a master: 'I don't search, I find' a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists ..the master, the mastery.. ..Producing, producing.. .He Picasso! only knows how to work, can’t do anything else. What lost souls!.. .The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait.
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You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
