Top 100 Quotes About The Masters
#1. The secret of Zen masters is discovering the path of return to such moments, and knowing how to pave the way for such moments to arise. The masters know how to use the dazzling light of those moments to illuminate the journey of return, the journey that begins from nowhere and has no destination.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#2. We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.
Emile Coue
#3. It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.
Dan Simmons
#4. All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
Jose Clemente Orozco
#5. In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#6. On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled ...
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world.
Bliss Carman
#7. As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
Robin Farina
#8. Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.
Henry Purcell
#9. The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.
Edgar Degas
#10. Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
William Hazlitt
#11. What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.
Lauren Kate
#12. One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants.
[One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']
George Herbert
#13. Well, there they were, the masters of the earth, canned like tuna on wheels and blind as bats, their heads full of mischief and their newspapers of blood.
Salman Rushdie
#14. Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.
James Stewart
#15. The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. There was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.
Ally Carter
#17. Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.
Bryant McGill
#18. All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith
#19. If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.
Noam Chomsky
#20. It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Adam Derek Scott
#21. I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
Dan Hill
#22. It's important to respect and exhaustively study the masters of music, but as you grow and develop it's important to use their discoveries, not as a final destination but as a catalyst for your original ideas.
Carl Orr
#23. The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.
Stuart Appleby
#24. When there is no way in which men can believe in the fundamental morality of a social system, even one then profit by, that system begins to die because the masters lose their ability to defend it.
George P. Rawick
#25. Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.
Ernie Els
#26. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#27. Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.
Jason Aldean
#28. Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
Bill Paxton
#29. 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 inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.
Robert Anton Wilson
#31. The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death.
Wilkie Collins
#32. I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
Pat Summerall
#33. Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.
Jo Walton
#34. I am always going to be in the hood in my heart, but what I did was added on the masters of arts, fine arts and the doctorate ... if you want me to pull that out, I can get very distinguished ... but I'm not going there ... I don't have to put on airs; the knowledge comes out - just listen.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#35. The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.
Victor Hugo
#36. All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
#37. The sons of the masters were roaming the world, looking for arms to hold them. And the arms that might have held them
could not forgive.
James Baldwin
#38. We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
Richard J. Foster
#39. The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
Odilon Redon
#40. Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.
Rory McIlroy
#42. You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.
Suze Orman
#43. We are not the masters of our own destinies. We are called to plan and strategize, to work and live active lives, to attempt things that are beyond us and tackle challenges that stretch us to the limit. Yet the outcome of our efforts, even our ability to exert ourselves, is always in God's hands.
Carolyn Custis James
#44. Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps
Umberto Eco
#45. Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso
#46. I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#47. We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything - death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth. At
Elie Wiesel
#48. We have suffered greatly because of this redefinition of science, not just because of the spiritual effect of nonbelief, but because of the resulting widespread attitude that because there is no design to the universe, we human beings are the masters of our universe.
Rex Russell
#49. It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.
Niels Henrik Abel
#50. Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.
Indro Montanelli
#51. It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think that you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#52. If we had to play Augusta National in one hour, the best athlete would win the Masters. But as it is, they give us time to hang ourselves. Every swing is a 'thought shot'. So instead of the best athlete, you end up with the best thinker as the winner.
Joe Inman
#54. It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.
Liu Dan
#55. We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.
M. Russell Ballard
#56. If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.
Ben Hogan
#57. France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.
Michel Ocelot
#58. If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins
#59. We may have pets, but when it comes to unconditional love, they are the masters.
Donald L. Hicks
#60. Its just as disappointing as it was thrilling to win the Masters. To come very close, to play so hard for 72 holes and play better than everybody but one guy is disappointing.
Phil Mickelson
#61. Gradually, however, I was forced to abandon the effort to persuade them to come my way, and then I achieved results only by appealing over the heads of the Senate and House leaders to the people, who were the masters of both of us.
Theodore Roosevelt
#62. Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.
Dennis Garvin
#63. Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are.
Dean Koontz
#64. We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
George Bernard Shaw
#65. The masters, the ones who succeed tremendously and set the standard for others, are those who master the details.
Chris Widener
#66. The form and color which guide men experienced in the study of the masters are not always recognized by laymen. Yet they can feel the genuineness of an artist's response to the life they know.
Walter Pach
#67. Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.
Fanny Kemble
#68. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn't suspect.
Deion Sanders
#69. The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Edmund Burke
#70. If you'd asked me at 30 where I'd be during the Masters when I was 46, I'd have pictured myself on a boat fishing, smoking a cigar, drinking a mint julep and watching it on television.
Jack Nicklaus
#71. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#72. 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.
Sean Hannity
#73. People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.
Pete Sampras
#74. The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#75. The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
Benjamin Hoff
#76. It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute
#77. The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Ricky Skaggs
#78. This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while the masters enjoy the fruit of your toil.
Helen Keller
#79. Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.
Ahmed Chalabi
#80. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.
Frederick Forsyth
#81. In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#82. The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson
#83. We must be the masters, and not the slaves of nature; neither body nor mind must be our master, nor must we forget that the body is mine, and not I the body's.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.
Len Wein
#85. Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.
Frank Moore Colby
#86. An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
James Dean
#87. How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those we love could come alive again not just in memory, but in truth.
Mark Helprin
#88. One of the masters at the University once told me that there were seven words that would make a woman love you." I made a deliberately casual shrug. "I was just wondering what they were." "Is that why you talk so much? Hoping to come on them by accident?" I
Patrick Rothfuss
#89. I'm trying to get hold of them ... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.
Cy Coleman
#91. There are so many great players on the men's - and women's - side. Hopefully I can keep improving and eventually play in the Masters.
Michelle Wie
#92. It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
E. J. Hughes
#93. The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#94. Beliefs are the masters of the world, and all masters are tyranical
Ki Longfellow
#95. war was the fault of the 'masters of men, everywhere, who subconsciously thrust others into suffering in order to advance their own powers'.28
Helen Macdonald
#96. Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
D.H. Lawrence
#97. The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Havelock Ellis
#98. The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and groups. This glue has made us the masters of creation. Of
Yuval Noah Harari
#99. Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#100. 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.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
