Master Quotes

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

My God, how can anyone ever be a master of music?

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affairs.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.