Quotes on Masters

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.