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Quotes About Master

As the Zen master Suzuki Roshi put it, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
~ Pema Chodron
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
~ Napoleon Hill
Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.
~ Kyrie Irving
One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
~ Mas Oyama
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.
~ Unknown
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.
~ John French Sloan
Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
~ Nat Hentoff
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.
~ Isaac Barrow
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
~ Seneca the Younger
Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.
~ Michelle C. Hillstrom
Adherence to established values, an affinity to creativity. Perseverance and innovation. The dualities of a hardness like stone and the pliancy of the wind-bent bamboo, these twin qualities flux and twine through the persona of the master and give him the presence and personality by which we know him.
~ Unknown
Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.
~ David Foster Wallace
Think of the old cliché about "the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master." This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in the head. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
~ David Foster Wallace
To lessen your fear and regard to the opinion of the world, think how soon the world will disregard you, and have no more thought or concern about you, than about the poorest animal that died in a ditch...Is it therefore worth your while to lose the smallest degree of virtue, for the sake of pleasing so bad a master, and so false a friend, as the world is?
~ William Law
We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
~ William Shakespeare
I read that I profess, the Art of Love. Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art! Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
~ William Shakespeare
O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple! My master sues to her, and she hath taught her suitor, He being her pupil, to become her tutor. O excellent device! was there ever heard a better, That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? Valentine. How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself? Speed. Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.
~ William Shakespeare
see you what you are, you are too proud. 240   But if you were the devil, you are fair. My lord and master loves you – O, such love Could be but recompensed, though you were crowned The nonpareil of beauty!
~ William Shakespeare
I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; My master calls me, I must not say no.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it
~ William Shakespeare