Masters Quotes - Page 30

• The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Wind, Sky

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ambition, Eye, Artist

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• We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Kings, Hero, Talking

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• And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Teacher, Voice, Ideas

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Oxford, Taught

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• ...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

  Aravind Adiga

  Lying, Men, Phones

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• Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told them the truth in the way they wanted to hear it, so that they thought they had won and left you in peace.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Boys, Way, Obnoxious

  Diana Wynne Jones (1990). “The Lives of Christopher Chant”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.

  Rachilde

  Book, Passion, Self

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• How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  Og Mandino

  Sad, Past, Thinking

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• The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.

  Confucius

  Heart, Feet, Heaven

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, Reflection, Water

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• I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Giving, Found

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina”, p.939, Xist Publishing

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• In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Vision, Trials

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Son, Cities, Would Be

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Regret, Night, Giving

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• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Inspirational, Success, Climbing

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• Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

  Alan Brennert

  Degrees, Fool, Boon

  Alan Brennert (2010). “Moloka'i”, p.205, Macmillan

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• Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

  Anne Rice

  Quiet, Teach, Subservience

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Fighting, Thorough Knowledge, Europe

  Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.45, Chronicle Books

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• As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

  Jane Austen

  Brother, Pain, People

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.14

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• This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Ocean, Cutting

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• We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

  Carson McCullers

  Loneliness, Heart, Waiting

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared

  Ian Fleming

  Love, Appreciation, Mistake

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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