Masters Quotes - Page 12

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity.

Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.

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

As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth; just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories; don't seek the truth.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

We cannot all be masters.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.

Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.

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.

Master your strengths. Outsource your weaknesses.

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

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.