#masters

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#few #five #four #had #how

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. ↗

— Aesop

#fire #good #masters #our #passions

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#decided #depth #itself #masters #quality

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. ↗

— Sam Abell

#how #little #masters #matters #much

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters. ↗

— Allison Janney

#difficult #difficult job #job #masters #servant

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#brand new #children #each #every #masters

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. ↗

— Jean Froissart

#barns #bound #carry #collect #corn

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#demonstration #does #estate #gracious #handed

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses. ↗

— David Knopfler

#apart #been #considered #constructively #craft