T Quotes
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“The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.”
Source: Confucius: The Analects
“The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.”
“The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9)”
“The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.”
“The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)”
“The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)”
“The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or for the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap, and goes for a long walk.”
“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”
Source: Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
“The Master says to his student: 'When I look at you, I see my past; when you look at me, you see your future'.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."”
“The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.”
“The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.”
Source: A Further Range
“The master takes his good enough work to excellence by considering every detail and straightening all that is crooked. Excellence happens when every detail is taken care of.”
Source: Unforgettable: Living a Life That Matters
“The Master Thinker is an artist and is careful to paint only the divine designs upon the canvas of his mind; and he paints these pictures with masterly strokes of power and decision, having perfect faith that there is no power to mar their perfection and that they shall manifest in his life the ideal made real.”
“The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.”
“The master understands that the universe is forever out of control”
“The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.”
“The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.”
“The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, "Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.”
“The master who loved most of all, endured the most and proved his love by his endurance.”
“The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.”
Source: Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839
“The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without desire. He never expects results; thus he is never disappointed. He is never disappointed; thus his spirit never grows old.”
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography
“The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.”
Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
“The mastermind, the man with the plan”
“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.”
“The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.”
“The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.”
“The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.”
“The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.”
“The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.”
“The Masters is one of golf's greatest traditions and Augusta is one of the best courses in the world. They are synonymous. It's an event that every golfer, and golf fan, looks forward to.”
“The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.”
“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.”
Source: Diary of a Bad Year
“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.”
“The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.”
Source: The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]
“The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.”
“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.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.”
“The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.”
“The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.”