Masters Quotes - Page 18

• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

  Marguerite Duras

  Destiny, Men, Funny Sarcastic

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Inspirational, Art, Fear

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• Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

  Robert Duvall

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.

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• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  Umberto Eco

  Mean, Media, People

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• To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

  Duke Ellington

  Inspiring, Music, Wise

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• Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

  Paul Engle

  Art, School, Gone

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• Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.185, Lulu.com

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• I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Thinking, Parenthood

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• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  Carly Fiorina

  Funny, Art, Listening

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• One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

  Gustave Flaubert

  I Hate You, Doe, Feels

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• To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Order, Two

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• We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

  Jane Fonda

  Our Words, Affirmation, Awareness

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• Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.

  Ron Fournier

  Art, Dark, Presidential

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• Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Fate, Economic

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• Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Well Being, Raises

  "Franken, unleashes first bill" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 20, 2009.

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• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Educational, Eye, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.332

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• The ego is not master in its own house.

  Sigmund Freud

  Self Worth, House, Ego

  "A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis" (1917)

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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.

  Robert Frost

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Management, Sometimes, Blind

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• As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Long, Slave, Remains

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• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

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• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, Black, Citizens

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.417, Basic Books

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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Political Will, Order

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• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Lust

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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