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Quotes About Masters

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.
~ Dean Koontz
Once the tremendous literary productivity of Zen masters is acknowledged, the question remains whether their profusion of words and countless instances of contradictory and absurd utterances and gestures make any sense.
~ Steven Heine
All eyes were on her. She both hated and feared them. They were rigid, merciless beings. She wanted to please them. It was instinctive. They were her masters.
~ Storm Constantine
There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
~ Alan Cooper
I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love, ' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.
~ Mary Lambert
Virtuous theologians work as God's stewards building God's home (1 Cor. 3:9), not masters building their own little empires.
~ Miroslav Volf
It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Trump has surrounded himself with masters of chaos—from Tillerson to Mnuchin. And chaos has a long track record of sending the price of oil up.
~ Naomi Klein
He bore that cold and vaguely condescending smile of career servants who, as the years go by, start to believe that their masters' lineage has tinged their own blood blue and granted them the privilege of looking down on others.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm not against having to work for someone; we're all working for someone really. We here, in this business, have our masters, but we do seem to have a greater amount of freedom allowed us than in some others, and I've always been against the hold one human being has over another, whether it's in employment or in the family.
~ Catherine Cookson
When Jack Nicklaus won the Masters in 1986, it was mind-blowing. How in the world could a 46-year-old win the Masters?
~ Jim Nantz
In truth, they were all admirable scholars, the masters who taught in the cloisters of the old school — once a monastic foundation — under the guidance of a kindly, snuff-taking old head. They were, to a man, well-meaning and sweet- humoured; and they were one in the belief that knowledge and good cheer are not mutually exclusive.
~ Thomas Mann
Nothing in the traditional life of Aborigines was more impressive than their practical knowledge. They were masters of their environment even though they could do little to change it.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
A mere verbal formula often distinguishes a truism from a paradox. "It is the duty of society to protect the weak;" but protection cannot be efficient without the power of control; therefore, "It is the duty of society to enslave the weak." And it is a duty which no organized and civilized society ever failed to perform. Parents, husbands, guardians, teachers, committees, etc., are but masters under another name, whose duty it is to protect the weak, and whose right it is to control them.
~ George Fitzhugh
From his reading he knew that the masters of this world were all evil, knew nothing of justice, and always sided with the strong and the false.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
On that Sunday of the Masters I remember turning on ESPN to find people talking about me. I switched over to the Golf Channel and people were talking about me. It was hard to escape.
~ Rory McIlroy
I stopped directing in 2001 for four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.
~ John Carpenter
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
~ Brian McKnight
I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It's been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world's top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.
~ Matteo Manassero
Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.
~ Oswald Spengler
Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.
~ Swami Krishnananda
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful.
~ Cynthia Ozick
I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
~ Patrice Motsepe