Masters Quotes

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

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

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

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

For man is man and master of his fate.

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country.

You can pretend anything and master it.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

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.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Be a master everywhere and wherever you stand is your true place.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.