What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.
Neil Peart
Related Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thin... ECKHART TOLLE It's great to be thought of as the master of anything. Even idiocy. Master of idiocy, Wes Craven... WES CRAVEN The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book o... RICHARD SERRA As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of ... TERESA PALMER The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a... JOHN C. MCGINLEY I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme me... DAVID ROCKWELL When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rif... DARELL HAMMOND Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. CONRAD HALL The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master. DAVE MATTHEWS I like the relationship between the master and the student. Each piece has new problems, and each is... MIKE BIDLO It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, 'sock it away,' and unsuccessful actors... STEPHEN LANG If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the ma... MIKE NICHOLS Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then ... KENNY CHESNEY I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was d... VINCENT CASSEL There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE A student who is becoming better than his master is a bright student; but a student who is becoming ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achieveme... THOMAS FRIEDMAN I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden... ERLAND JOSEPHSON If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be l... JARON LANIER I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seem... DAN FOGELMAN The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. AUDRE LORDE It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ... MAX VON SYDOW It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I... STEVE CARELL That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you ar... IAN HART If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whate... SNOOP DOGG Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you th... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that'... SARAH GADON True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unf... CATE BLANCHETT Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is li... PHIL ANSELMO It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrif... AYN RAND And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... BILLY GARDELL My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty o... SARAH JESSICA PARKER With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laug... BROOKE NEVIN There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo... ANNETTE BENING It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they le... MICHAEL HAYDEN Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a... GEOFFREY CANADA I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day a... CEELO GREEN There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of... VINNIE JONES We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&... H. P. LOVECRAFT Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's ... MARK HAMILL It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef... JIM CARREY Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It'... SHANIA TWAIN Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a fed... ANN EDWARDS CANNON I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ul... RICKY JAY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, ... JULIA ORMOND The most common thing over the years is, 'What's it like to work with David Lynch?' That... MADCHEN AMICK Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ALDOUS HUXLEY Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember... GEORGE CUKOR You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I... BRETT HOEBEL Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game. GARY GYGAX There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't... SEAN YOUNG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions... MICHELLE PFEIFFER I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for y... BONNIE BASSLER There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's ... FLEUR EAST What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theat... JASON ROBERT BROWN When a man tries to communicate with an animal, there's a relationship between them, and you gen... DAVID SELTZER If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about i... RUSSELL CROWE It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to p... JOE BASTIANICH What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there's somebody out there in the parking lot... PHIL GINGREY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! WARREN SPECTOR But first I want to get my master's degree at Columbia's School of International Public Affa... CHRISTY ROMANO Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled; culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was... ZACH JOHNSON Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decis... SYDNEY POLLACK I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical. AUTRE NE VEUT If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ... HERMANN HESSE Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you... EVA LONGORIA The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-... P. J. O'ROURKE It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly m... RUTH BADER GINSBURG But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge i... ESTHER DYSON With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wrac... AARON ASHMORE If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful... TOM HARDY There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not t... KEN HAM I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about... STEVE KERR Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. P. T. BARNUM We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reas... RIVER PHOENIX What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to grati... DEBORAH NORVILLE For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by the... RAFE SPALL A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then th... ATTICUS ROSS I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, ... GIULIANA RANCIC There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, th... ELLEN BARKIN Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's... SERGIO ARAGONES You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ... HARRIET TUBMAN
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