“I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.” MadeMightWatchesMastersPromiseObservationObservers Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“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.” UseWatchesTeachPowerMastersBalance Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.” LifeEyeLastsLife IsGivenWaitingBlackDarkPoorLeaderWatchesAirMastersBallsDancingCharityWarmHungryGatesGoing AwayStanding OutJewelsPenniesCarriagesLackeysHungry Eyes Author:Austin O'Malley
“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.” MenDesireStrongInterestHalfEnemyWatchesBreakMastersConscienceFellowsViolentCrushGatesApprovalDreadHerdsVigilantCensure Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.” PeopleWayLooksStillsTogetherWatchesTeachingPaintingMastersTrainStudiosDrawingInstructionAlrightPupilsProgrammesMonasteries Author:Paul Cezanne
“To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.” MenChildrenWarNightFightingCausesMemoriesWatchesRecordsDoorsMastersSlaverySlaveSouthBetrayalInstanceFaithfulBrownDaddyMistressBlanketEmancipationPlantationsGuardianship Author:Ruth Stout
“FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.” AbilityRoomsViewsWatchesDogMastersGuiltAngle Author:Rich Hall
“So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.” TryingYearsMomentsGamesHoursWatchesPlayerInformationStudentsMastersBasketballPicksCraftsErasChampionshipNba Championships Author:Andre Iguodala
“Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.” I CanSufferingWatchesCasesMastersSicknessCommandersPianistIvory Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.” MenMindFirstsWould BeRunningFeltAnimalWatchesClearMastersGrewEmpiresHeelsOppressedApocalypsePersuasionPassed AwayMartians Book:H. G. Wells The Dover Reader Source: H. G. Wells The Dover Reader