Quotes with mastered

  • A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
  • A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
  • Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

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  • Harold S. Geneen When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Doug Larson A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Winston Churchill Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • James Russell Lowell He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lao-Tzu He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • William Feather Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Oscar Wilde His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stanley Kubrick If you can talk brilliantly enough about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Aldous Huxley My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anthony Robbins Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Leonard Cohen Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Carl Orff Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
    Carl Orff
    German composer and pedagogue (1895 - 1982)
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  • Leon Trotsky Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Dorothy Parker Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Bhagavad Gita When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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