#master

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#any #best #contestants #given #jeopardy

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#himself #master #only #taught

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#buried #good #good movies #i #like

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#become #belief #common #community #done

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#brilliant #contrast #dull #duty #speakers

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#irresponsible #master #power #such

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

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#bureaucracy #bureaucrats #clients #derive #inherently