Master Quotes

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

He has a very extensive public relations apparatus that is paid for by the taxpayers of this state. They are some of the best in the business. and he is a master at getting not only television but other media exposure on the basis of confrontation and chaos.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.