#master

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#collecting #intends #man #master #masters

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#degree #engineering #graduate degree #i #institute

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#anything #concentrate #dabble #deciding #direct

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#masters #mind #old #scarcity #their

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cause #demands #devotes #himself #his

It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity of noble minds, that the wisest legislator and most exalted genius that ever reformed or enlightened the world can never expect such tributes of praise as are lavished on the memory of pretended saints, whose whole conduct was probably to the last degree odious or contemptible, and whose industry was entirely directed to the pursuit of objects pernicious to mankind. It is only a conqueror, a personage no less entitled to our hatred, who can pretend to the attainment of equal renown and glory. ↗

— David Hume

#equality

Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#candidates #consultants #dark #democrats #hear

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. ↗

— Kenny G

#college #coltrane #i #influence #jazz

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#master #once #remains #slave #unspoken

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#hero #his #learned #learned man #life