"It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work."
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"People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters."
"Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them."
"One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."
"It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man."
"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor."
"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it."
"The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing."
"The master understands that the universe is forever out of control"
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master."
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
"Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant."
"You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents."
"The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us."
"On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye."
"Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good."
"Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved."
"We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters."
"I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave."
"Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master."