Masters Quotes
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There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.
Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.
Eric Maisel
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How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Brad Warner
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Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters
George Fitzhugh
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I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
Josh Lucas
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Herodotus
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Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
Henry Louis Gates
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
Gautama Buddha
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There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.
Ernie Els
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Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Stephen Covey
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During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
Ernst Gombrich
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I never wanted to be a part of planet Earth, but I am compelled to be here, so anything I do for this planet is because the Master-Creator of the Universe is making me do it. I am of another dimension. I am on this planet because people need me.
Sun Ra
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
Ernst Haas
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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.
William Gurnall
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The challenge is: How can people gain control over the residues of past trauma and return to being masters of their own ship? Talking, understanding, and human connections help, and drugs can dampen hyperactive alarm systems. But we will also see that the imprints from the past can be transformed by having physical experiences that directly contradict the helplessness, rage, and collapse that are part of trauma, and thereby regaining self-mastery.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
Thomas More
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What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.
Charles de Foucauld
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We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people
George O. Wood
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
Stephen Covey
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
Charles S. Maier
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It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
Terence McKenna
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Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
Stephen Covey