Masters Quotes - Page 19

• There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Two, People, World

  Quoted in James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, A Dialogue (1973)

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• To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

  Milton Glaser

  Mean, Design, Owners

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• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Firsts, Favourite

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• It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

  Michael Gove

  Children, School, Play

  "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Reflection, Bangs

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  Gary Hamel

  Office, Political, Voting

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• That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Country, Golf

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• I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.

  Naomie Harris

  Art, Drivers, Knows

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• Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

  Martin Heidegger

  Writing, Men, Facts

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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.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Thinking, Government

  Frank Herbert (2017). “The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction”, p.107, Tor Science Fiction

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• Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Servant Of God, Earth

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.157, Macmillan

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• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

  Lauryn Hill

  Insecurity, Black, Western Culture

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Art, Children, Practice

  "Easy does it" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 01, 2005.

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• The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.

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• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911). “From Day to Day with Holmes”

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• I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Passion, Equality, Envy

  "Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916 - 1935". Book by Mark De Wolfe Howe, Volume 2, p. 942, 1953.

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• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Moral

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

  Victor Hugo

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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• Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, People, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Double Standard, Benefits

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.21

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• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Jealous, Slave Girl, Giving

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

  Henry James

  Country, Writing, Yield

  Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 Jan. 1871

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