Masters Quotes
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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I'm an indestructible master of war.
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.
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I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
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I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.
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We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.
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No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
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Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
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The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.
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The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.
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The person seeing perfection is the Master.
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
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When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
