#master

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#deaf #master #servant #sometimes #you

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#drop #handing #hope #i #i can

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#condition #existence #life #mastery #nature

The only thing they really get to pick is the single. But I get to pick the producer, the songs on the record, the final masters, the artwork. Basically, I hand them a record. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#basically #final #get #hand #i

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#comprehending #formal #little #master #meanings

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#away #i #master #program #recently

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#back #buying #changed #contemporary #contemporary art

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. ↗

— James Stewart

#architect #architecture #back #because #college

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#forthcoming #i #master #me #never