Masters Quotes - Page 27

• Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker

  Troy Denning

  Cracks, Eccentric, Luke

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• Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, Thinking

  "Rio and the New Millennium" by Vaclav Havel, www.nytimes.com. June 3, 1992.

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• I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about... I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Struggle, Fate

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• A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Games, Hands

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.136, Holt Paperbacks

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• Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

  Truman Capote

  Return, Said, Wrists

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.87, Modern Library

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• The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Children, Creativity

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• You will, Judas, my brother. God will give you the strength, as much as you lack, because it is necessary—it is necessary for me to be killed and for you to betray me. We two must save the world. Help me." Judas bowed his head. After a moment he asked, "If you had to betray your master, would you do it?" Jesus reflected for a long time. Finally he said, "No, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to. That is why God pitied me and gave me the easier task: to be crucified.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Brother, Jesus, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Government, Dying

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.148, Vintage

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• Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, Military

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.10, Crown

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• The art of losing isn't hard to master.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Your Loss, Losing

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.198, Macmillan

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• Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Government, Curiosity, Desire

  "Mason & Dixon". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1997.

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• I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

  Kathleen Norris

  Joy, Taught, Subjects

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.80, Penguin

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• There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Littles, Mystery, Lifetime

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• A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Names, Allies

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• He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

  Jack London

  Dog, Fighting, Law

  Jack London (2016). “Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Art, Memories, Leftovers

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.36, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Men

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• ...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray

  Luce Irigaray

  Distance, Eye, Smell

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• Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

  Anthony de Mello

  Suicide, Religious, Men

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• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Attitude, Anger

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• You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

  Thomas Pynchon

  May, Creatures

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.187, Penguin

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• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.138, Beacon Press

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• He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.827, Macmillan

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• Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

  Leon Uris

  Wall, Ghetto, Men

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Play, Novelists

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