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Quotes About Master

That there exists in the human mind and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity [sensus divinitatis], we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead…. …this is not a doctrine which is first learned at school, but one as to which every man is, from the womb, his own master; one which nature herself allows no individual to forget.
~ John Calvin
The God-given vocation of theology is to be a servant of the Truth, never his self-appointed master.
~ John Clark
I learned, as the raft moved and I slid through the day, as the day slid through me, to let the task be master: which is only not to choose to do anything but what has chosen me to be done.
~ John Crowley
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.
~ Frederick Tilney
Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
~ Gautama Buddha
Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.
~ Joy Page
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
~ Edward Sapir
Discipline of mind and body is one of the most difficult things one has to acquire, but in the long run it is a valuable ingredient of education and a tremendous bulwark in time of trouble. Certainly, it is essential in meeting defeats and recovering from disaster. No matter how hard hit you are, you can face what has to be faced if you have learned to master your own fears.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The only reason Francis is in this business is because it's the most easily manipulated market in the world, and he's a master manipulator.
~ Antoine Wilson
We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.
~ Antonin Artaud
An intelligent or brilliant feels ebullient only upon receiving the reward or award from the hands of genuine master, whereas the stupid or sycophant feels buoyant even when getting it from the hands of servant.
~ Anuj Somany
Better on ground with a mentally sound person who stays often in solitude than be found around a self-proclaimed master who lives in air of being important and spends time usually in air-conditioned environment and remains surrounded often by many dumb or selfish people.
~ Anuj Somany
Donkeys walk in a flock on their front two legs by wearing knotted straps as an identification marks around own necks or on some body parts and some brays as if says or raises slogan of their master's name.
~ Anuj Somany
There is a lot of people who do not mind to follow or support even a bandit like a spiritual master or devotional pundit as long as they can derive merely their own profit out of this parasitic relationship and that's it.
~ Anuj Somany
Love is the master of our lives, And, e'en though happy subjects we, We're governed by his scepter strong Through time and through eternity.
~ ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
Studying mice, they discovered a "master clock" in a region of the brain (the dorsomedial nucleus) that can reset the circadian rhythm when faced with a shortage of food. The thinking is that when food is not an issue, lightness and darkness synchronize our sleep cycle. But when food is scarce, another system kicks in to synchronize our sleep cycle with our ability to find food.
~ Arianna Huffington
Buffy caught an unexpected movement from the corner of her eye. She turned to see Xander/Sarah holding an object while he/she rushed toward the Master with murderous intentions. "No!" Buffy exclaimed. "Use a stake ! Not a steak !" Sarah stopped in fron of the grill and struck the Master several times on the chest and shoulders with the piece of meat.
~ Arthur Byron Cover
The true master, when his or her prestige is threatened by age or circumstance, can say, "Don't you see that I am a person who could be utterly forgotten without batting an eye?
~ Arthur C. Brooks
He opened up a new world in music," said French Romantic master Hector Berlioz, who idolized the deaf composer. "Beethoven is not human."[23]
~ Arthur C. Brooks
Another advantage I gained in my new master was, he made no pretensions to, or profession of, religion; and this, in my opinion, was truly a great advantage.
~ Frederick Douglass
But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the richness of a personality, the fullness of it, its power to flow over and to bestow, its instinctive feeling of ease, and its affirmative attitude towards itself, that creates great love and great sacrifices: these passions proceed from strong and godlike personalism as surely as do the desire to be master, to obtrude, and the inner certainty that one has a right to everything.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For today the petty people have become lord and master: they all preach submission and acquiescence and prudence and diligence and consideration and the long et cetera of petty virtues.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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