#master

I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— Jon Secada

#considering #did #everything #fact #i

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#happy #masterpieces #too #write #you

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

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

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it. ↗

— John Shadegg

#came #english #hard #home #homeland

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#every #mastered #person #profession #skeptic

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#another #closing #door #even #feeling

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#being #coming #coming home #dogs #experiments