Quotes about master

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“The great Zen master Rinzai, in order to take his students' attention away from time, would often raise his finger and slowly ask: "What, at this moment, is lacking?" A powerful question that does not require an answer on the level of the mind. It is designed to take your attention deeply into the Now. A similar question in the Zen tradition is this: "If not now, when?"”

“Love is not about concepts; love is about action. The only way to master love is to practice love. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love.”

“We must pity those who have such singular tastes, but never insult them: their lack is a lack in nature. They are no more the masters of arriving in this world with bizarre tastes that we are the masters of arriving bowlegged or shapely. Besides, is a man saying something disagreeable to you when he reveals his desire to enjoy you? Absolutely not! He's paying you a compliment!”

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

“Free yourself, just as the slave seek for full freedom from his/her master.”

“If the devil was really the master of the world, we would be dead before we knew it. He is also a citizen of the world, just like us.”

“"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism.”

“Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. But can there be anything more puerile, more short-sighted, than the views of those Economists who believe in all earnest that this woeful transitory state means nothing but adapting society to the acquisitive propensities of capitalists, both landlords and money-lords?”

“It is always necessary to call men back to history, which is the first master in politics, or more exactly the only master.”

“Behind the parliamentary puppets stands the Master of Money.”

“All struggle becomes celebration, ultimately, in the mind of the Master, who understands that every circumstance and condition has been produced co-jointly, by all of the Souls collaboratively creating that experience or that event, in order that each of the Souls might have a perfect contextual field within which to announce and to declare, to express and to fulfill at the next level, Who They Really Are. This is about spiritual growth. This is about spiritual expansion. This is about the Soul’s evolution.”

“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”

“One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever."
- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)”

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

“Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned.
"Or," Simon said,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.”

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”

“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”

“How many times… have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

“The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”

“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”

“I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.”

“Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.”

“In a world of bosses, you are your own master”

“The ego is not master in its own house.”

“You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”

“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand”

“Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.”

“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”

“No wonder Barrons was so determined to keep me alive, and I had a Fae prince playing lapdog, and the Lord Master hadn't yet launched a full scale attack against me. They allme alive. I was Tigger. I was the only one.”

“I think it was the institution… I was trying to master it.”

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

“He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]”

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”

“Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker”

“It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”

“Purity in body and heart
May please some--as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household
Has all of his utensils made of gold;
Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”

“Foaly: Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.”

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

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

“It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

“Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”

“Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.”

“Practice makes the master.”

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

“… there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.”

“So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda)
Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)”

“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”

“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”

“I went to college. Got a master’s degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys.”
She gave her grandmother a wry look. “You know, the usual girly stuff.”

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

“You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”

“In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.”

“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

“What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.”

“The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”

“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”

“You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?”

“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”

“The human tongue is a beast that few can master.”

“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.”

“A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.”

“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”

“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.”

“The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11)”

“Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.”

“He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing”

“I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me.”

“All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.”

“In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.”

“Love is a better master than duty.”

“.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot”

“Some men […] choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced.
A man who is forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.”

“The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.”

“This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”

“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.”

“The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.”

“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.”

“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.”

“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”

“On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.”

“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”

“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”

“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”