Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Lewis

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Wilhelm Reich

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Oswald Chambers

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Max Stirner

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Michael Jackson

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

Hugh Kingsmill

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.