My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
Knowing it without understanding it is enough for one to be qualified a fool; Understanding without relative adherence, masters one in foolishness.
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord
Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
An efficient plan will involve a flame thrower
... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.
nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
Certainty is missing the point entirely.
And a funeral, I found out, is like a wedding in reverse, with less time to plan.
I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.
