#master

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1. ↗

— Stefan Edberg

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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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