Masters Quotes - Page 22

• Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Natural, Sadistic

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Entdeckung Des Orgons”

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• All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Dance, Children, Attitude

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone, Thomas Gray (1798). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting”, p.88

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• The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

  Samuel Richardson

  Humble, Gentleman, Addresses

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Agency, Events

  "Salman Rushdie says he's glad he wrote The Satanic Verses". www.mirror.co.uk. October 1, 2008.

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• It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Simple, Facts

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Birthday, Men, Self

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• I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

  Robert Schumann

  Enemy, Elements, Orchestra

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.30, Ravenio Books

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• I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

  Gene Simmons

  Ideas, Torture, Crave

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

  Lysander Spooner

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Want, Buying

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• I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Crafts, Orchestra, Forthcoming

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Self

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• I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

  Pat Summerall

  Events, Done, Super Bowl

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview with Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  Ice T

  Party, Rap, Rocks

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• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Tools, Wonderful

  "Sunday Profile: Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Dan Harris, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2009.

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• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Compassion, Rights, Tables

  1985 NBC News, 9 Jan.

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• Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Inspirational, Heaven, Earth

  "You Can Save the Earth: 7 Reasons Why and 7 Simple Ways, a Philosophy for the Future" by Hatherleigh, Sean K. Smith, and Andrew Flach, (p. 92), 2008.

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• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Umpires, Parking Space

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• Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

  Steven Van Zandt

  Real, Kids, Rocks

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  George Washington

  Freedom, War, Fire

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• The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

  Len Wein

  Believe, Character, Evil

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• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  Orson Welles

  Mean

  Quoted in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and Ronald L. Davis, Hollywood Anecdotes (1988)

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