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A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity ... — Robert Schumann

Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life! — Tony Dovale

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System. — Shigeo Shingo

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. — Edgar Degas

Do you want to be an expert, or a master salesperson? You can only choose one. — Eben Pagan

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave. — Swami Vivekananda

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding — Jacob Bronowski

My ultimate goal is to play in the Masters. — Michelle Wie

The course is perfection and it asks perfection. — Nick Faldo

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself. — Robert Bresson

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! — Wilkie Collins

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am. — John Zorn

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? — Aravind Adiga

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody. — Margaret Thatcher

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny. — Dennis Garvin

The master's eye is the best fertilizer. — Pliny The Elder

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love. — Jimmy Evans

What your mind cannot master it will eventually resent. — Mike Murdock

All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters. — Jack Kerouac

Politics makes strange post-masters. — Kin Hubbard

Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am
your master. — Griffin Jay

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom. — Andre Holland

Servants, serve well your masters. For this is right. And in so doing, you do it as to the Lord. — Janette Oke

The masters and overseers were so good at employee development, in their absence, the employees still achieved the company's mission — Darnell Lamont Walker

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve — Frank Wynne

I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.] — Martial

In the word of no master am I bound to believe. — Horace

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved. — Deepak Chopra

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. — Terri Windling

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. — Thomas A. Edison

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients. — Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

The more you insist on improving who and what you are, the more you become master of your destiny. — Rod Stryker

CHAPTER LXXIX THE LAST DAYS OF MARY MASTERS — Anthony Trollope

Master your responses to external events
don't attempt to control them. — Caroline Myss

burglars are idiot masters of the built environment, drunk Jedis of architectural space. — Geoff Manaugh

After a moment, she turned to Adam and pronounced him, Hero. Because he's yours, Grandpa, and you're an American hero like my daddy. — Kallypso Masters

Remember the acorn;
It does not devour other acorns. — Edgar Lee Masters

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it. — Frederick Lenz

What we want is to become masters in our own house. — Michael Ignatieff

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us. — Publilius Syrus

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. — Ridley Scott

Though the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools,
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to. — Bob Dylan

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. — Indro Montanelli

Words are good servants but bad masters. — Aldous Huxley

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words. — Friedrich Frobel

If you don't master money, it's going to master you. — Tony Robbins

Accompanying her were distinguished Jedi Masters Dooku and Sifo-Dyas, and a tall, powerfully built Jedi Knight named Qui-Gon Jinn, — James Luceno

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell

The tongue may be an unruly member
But silence poisons the soul. — Edgar Lee Masters

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters. — E. J. Hughes

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. — George Koltanowski

That, even with imperfect masters, the canine soul is pure, loyal, and dependable. — Jon Katz

There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all. — Sathya Sai Baba

Masters no longer needed any — Sidney Sheldon

The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached. — George Herbert

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. — George Bernard Shaw

Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week. — Matt Fitzgerald

Women; the supreme masters of the bait and switch.
D'Artagnan Bloodhawke — D'Artagnan Bloodhawke

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company. — Gautama Buddha

What worries you masters you — Haddon W. Robinson

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself. — James Stewart

It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away. — Alexander Masters

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy. — Honore De Balzac

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none. — Josh Lucas

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen. — Henry David Thoreau

Hope that doesn't hurt too much — Eve Masters

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse. — Alexander Masters

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? — Charles Spurgeon

Good servants frequently make good masters. — Jupiter Hammon

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living. — Neale Donald Walsch

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps ... — Amedeo Modigliani

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters

And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature. — Rene Descartes

Set a master goal for your running and for your life. — Gerry Lindgren

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha

I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were. — Moliere

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. — Mabel Robinson

These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they — Harriet Jacobs

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you. — Frederick Lenz

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. — Fritz Stern

I considered how the princes were masters of manipulation and wondered if Ahkeel knew exactly how this would end and if I'd survive his game. — Pippa DaCosta

If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once. — Jedediah Berry

Even when others don't understand, masters recognize their allegiance is to a higher calling than pleasing the masses. — Jeff Goins

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master. — Bertrand Russell

There is something about Death
Like love itself! — Edgar Lee Masters

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic ... — Miriam Toews

It's the Masters. If that doesn't get you nervous and your juices flowing, I don't know what does. — Peter Uihlein

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters