“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.” HumansWellsSufferingPositionMastersWalkingSorrowEatingUnderstoodWindowOpening Author:W. H. Auden
“Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.” KnowsEnoughDiesForcePositionMastersIntelligentEndureInsightWealthyPersevereHaving Strength Author:Laozi
“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.” IfsMenMaySelfCharacterHoursQualityInfluenceExamplePositionHe ManMastersExerciseDisregard Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.” ShouldWritingLanguageSocialSpacePracticeSubjectsPositionJudgingMastersTheoryActivitySafeResearchDiscourseAnalysts Author:Roland Barthes
“The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.” ArtPastArtistEnergyStrengthPossibilityPositionMastersCommunicateColossal Author:Jorg Immendorff
“Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?” PeopleWayWellsMayLittlesSaidEnoughPlayTodayAbleYoungFoundGamesUnderstandingCommonPositionStrangeMastersDemandDegreesOrdinaryPhysicsCommon SenseMathematicalMasteryAgain And AgainExceptionalPhysicistIntricate Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The relationship to the director is becoming more crucial to me, making sure there are some common goals. I haven't been in the kind of position where my roles have been chosen for me, where someone says, "First we'll do this and then we'll do this," and it's all part of some master plan.” FirstsKindHas BeensGoalCommonRolesPlansHavensPositionMastersBecomingDirectorsChosenCrucialBecoming MoreCommon Goal Author:Kathy Bates