#master

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#aside #fast #future #hold #into

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ↗

— Paul Klee

#compositions #expression #forms #further #life

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#cool #every #fate #hands #heads

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ↗

— Sallust

#few #few men #just #liberty #master

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#learned #like #lot #masters #orchestration

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#harmony #his #masterly #only #precisely

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#cannot #copy #copying #enter #good

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#justice #master #may #must #recompense

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging. ↗

— Richard Serra

#become #book #learn #master #rigging

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#believed #mastery #nature #self #substitute