Mastership Quotes & Sayings

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership — Aron Nimzowitsch

Nothing avails: every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for mastership. [408] — Friedrich Nietzsche

Gabriel,' said Jerott firmly, 'is now at Birgu, Malta, engaged in a life-and-death struggle for the Grand Mastership of the Order of St John. He is unlikely to spend a large part of his time arranging esoteric disasters for his adversaries. He is far more likely to arrange to kill them stone dead.'

'All right. You go and get killed stone dead on that side of the garden, and I'll stick to this,' said Lymond. — Dorothy Dunnett

And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl ... there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go ... ' ... if it hadn't been for his head ... — Bill Cosby

Who Has Won to Mastership — Jack London

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave. — Idries Shah

Make yourself worthy of money and money will make itself worthy of you. — Suze Orman

I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit more style. But, on the whole, I feel Batman - a stoic, methodical, detective - is better served a wee bit reserved. And, I'm anything but comfortable. Zero Year is pressure, man. — Greg Capullo

I do not say the mind gets informed by action, - bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties. — William Mountford

See that mountain up ahead?" Jefferson points to a low, rounded mound on the horizon. "I think that's it."
"It's called Independence Rock, not Independence Mountain," I say.
"Everything is bigger out here. Just look at me." He straightens in his saddle and puffs out his chest and fails to keep a straight face.
"Your head is bigger, that's for sure — Rae Carson

We all die, it's a fact that today you aren't here, yesterday you weren't here doesn't mean that tomorrow you won't be here! — Deyth Banger

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it. — Idries Shah

Be silent, and sit down, for you are drunk, and this is the edge of the roof. - RUMI — Robert V.S. Redick

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself, — Julian Bond

There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order. — Anthony Braxton

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust. — Rob Bell

Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan of pleasure. A massage from Mimi was a fantastic experience, and she felt like a kitten who just wanted to purr and wave its paws around. — Stieg Larsson

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable — Benjamin Franklin

The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles. — Christian De Duve

Just a tender sense of my own process, that holds something of my connection with the divine. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; — Herman Melville

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men. — William Morris

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. — Voltaire

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. — Robert Kiyosaki

You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; that when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating — William Shakespeare

Everybody eats, everybody learns to cook — Jim Bob Duggar

Markets mean patrons, buyers, consumers. There is under capitalism one way to wealth: to serve the consumers better and cheaper than other people do. But in the shop and factory, the owner - or in the corporations, the representative of the shareholders, the president - is the boss. The mastership is merely apparent and conditional. He is subject to the supremacy of the consumer. The consumer is king - the real boss - and the manufacturer is done for if he does not outstrip his competitors in best serving the consumers. It was this great economic transformation that changed the face of the world. — Ludwig Von Mises