Masterfully Done Quotes

#1. The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that comprise it, the origin of those actions, is diffuse and is associated with various morbid sensations. Rather like a dream.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess.

Lionel Suggs

#3. The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

Jacqueline Carey

#4. When melodies and chord changes are masterfully combined, a grand movement takes over our entire body, awakening heart, nerves, and emotions with a primitive force. One can see it in the ancient dance of the enchantress: her hypnotic jingling of costume, her trance to appease the gods.

Joshua Emmet

#5. Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them.

Jerry I. Porras

#6. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.
Else what use is love at all?

Oscar Wilde

#7. If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Sivananda Saraswati

#8. It seems the guys who are best at sex approach it with the serenity of a Buddhist monk. They are never going to beg for it and when the time is right (and all signs point to yes), then they take charge masterfully and completely.

Roberto Hogue

#9. The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends.

Geoffrey Dutton

#10. IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.

Colson Whitehead

#11. I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.

George R R Martin

#12. I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

John Burnside

#13. The excellent fail more often than the mediocre.

Eric Greitens

#14. For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

Juliet Marillier

#15. Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

Gregory Stock

#16. My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#17. Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.

Kate Atkinson

#18. Control oil and you control money. That's how you become a dominant player in the new Great Game - the one that Putin has been playing so masterfully in his effort to engineer the demise of the dollar.

Marin Katusa

#19. We'll, that's an evil smile..."

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James Patterson

#20. A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.

Lloyd Levitin

#21. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#22. Heartbreaking and brave, Rachel Resnick masterfully pulls the past to the present, exploring how the seeds of addiction planted during an unhappy girlhood can blossom into a grown-up woman's frantic search for love. LOVE JUNKIE is a memoir unlike any other; it will blow your mind.

Lee Montgomery

#23. The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#24. I began to wonder if what makes men walk so lordlike and speak so masterfully is having the love of women. If that was it, Sarah and I would make lords of each other.

Isabel Miller

#25. Eternally the embers glow masterfully fueled by lovers passion.

Truth Devour

#26. An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville's THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He is going to be a major new voice in suspense fiction.

Jeff Abbott

#27. The business world traditionally rewards people for being closer to the top (case in point: outrageous CEO salaries) or for being closer to the transactions (investment bankers, salespeople).

Eric Schmidt

#28. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.

Robin S. Sharma

#29. I really hate that I need my glasses while using my laptop. What I hate even more is that I need those glasses to be full of vodka at all times.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#30. Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction ... transcends the historical thriller.

Jeffery Deaver

#31. It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.

Nan Aron