Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters." "You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...] "But I came far. Miles can be years.
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.
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.
By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.
We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is f...
It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.
You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
You are not male or female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
Planning to stay on your leash, wolf? Or would you rather let loose?
Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
SUNDAY The day..I planned a lot but actually do nothing.
Thorne "I don't like to think of it as 'stolen. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back".
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.
