A Quotes
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“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.”
“A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.”
Source: Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
“A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.”
“A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones”
“A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.”
“A master of deception can turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies.”
“A master of happiness will appreciate what he or she has while they have them and the moment any specific thing is gone or lost, the focus will be on other things to appreciate and be grateful for. At times, this could be gratitude for the memories that remain. Material and physical objects are temporary, memories are forever.”
Source: Happiness: Formulas, Stories, and Insights
“A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.”
Source: English History 1914-1945
“A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.”
Source: A Thousand Paper Birds
“A master of straw eates a servant of steele.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel
“A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.”
“A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.”
“A master passion is the love of news.”
“A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.”
Source: The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons
“A master sees more than his students, even when his eyes are closed.”
“A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.”
“A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'”
Source: Anthony De Mello: Writings
“A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.”
“A master with one disciple is greater than a charlatan with a million.”
“A masterful retreat is itself a victory.”
“A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.”
“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.”
“a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.”
Source: Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader
“A masterpiece is created when skills and intelligence blend together.”
Source: Quantraz
“A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.”
“A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.”
Source: Lectures on Don Quixote
“A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.”
Source: Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945
“A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.”
“A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.”
“A match as a pen
Blood on the floor as ink
The forgotten gauze cover as paper
But what should I write?
I might just manage my address
This ink is strange; it clots
I write you from a prison
in Greece”
“A match made by angels in Heaven but wrecked by demons in Hades. "Tares among the Wheat" – H. Melvin James, c. 2019”
“A match made in heaven?" He chuckled.
"Probably not in heaven but right now you can take me there and we'll check it out." She smiled.”
Source: Hot Cowboy Nights
“A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.”
“A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said "her brothers got a moustache!"”
“A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.”
“A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn’t having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we’d have to move!”
“A mated Walker was a beast better left unprovoked.”
Source: Ethan
“A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .”
“A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.”
“A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.”
“A mathematical equation stands forever.”
“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.”
“A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.”
“A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.”
“A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.”
“A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.”
“A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.”
Source: Remarks on the foundations of mathematics
“A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.”