Masters Quotes - Page 21

• Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Architecture, Disillusionment

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• Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Made, Consumers, Brands

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• The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

  John C. McGinley

  Cutting, Curves, Two

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 10, 2006.

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• Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.

  Brian McKnight

  Play, Guy, Balls

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Track, Satan, Always Working

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• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Spirit

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  Wilson Mizner

  Ambition, Men, People

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• We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

  Maria Montessori

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 9), 1949.

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• I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

  Susanna Moodie

  Husband, Lying, Mistress

  Susanna Moodie (1913). “Roughing It in the Bush, or Life in Canada”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Horse, Stress, Thinking

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• A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

  George Muller

  Mean Girls, Servant Of God, World

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• It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

  Robert Musil

  Believe, School, Errors

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• When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Strong, Writing, My Own

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• A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Guessing, Want, Should

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

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• The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Ambition, Doe

  "Twilight of the Idols".

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• A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Destiny, Colonialism, World

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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• Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Fool

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.135, Open Road Media

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• Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, World, Economy

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• The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Stories, Levels

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• I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

  Michael Phelps

  World, Want, Cups

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• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Discipline, Fasting

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• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Giving, Fasting, Mastery

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• It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Offering

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.677, Penguin

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