Masters Quotes

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Servants honor their master by their service.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the Life

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

There is really only one Zen Master ... and that's yourself.

You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

In Zen we have no gurus.

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.

We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.

The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.

A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]

A good pay-master starts not at assurances.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']

None is borne Master.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.