I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?
You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.
Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.
A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.
Whether you consider me a master filmmaker or not, I do it with my intuition and my vision, my experience as a storyteller.
My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.
What worries you, masters you.
My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words
We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in. We don't judge it, we just know it. Gradually we'll become more and more accustomed to being conscious of what we're thinking and our various positive and negative states. We'll become more and more the masters of our mind, rather than the slaves.
From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.