Quotes of: Master Keyword

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

Alison Gopnik

I'm a master of heels. I'm used to them. I'm tiny, so I wear them all the time. Apart from to the beach. That would be slightly psycho. I'm over the top, but not that much yet.

Josephine de La Baume

It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

Michael Gove

The martial arts that I got into was because of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, because of all of the animal styles at the time. It was around about the time when Jackie was doing 'Drunken Master,' and, like, Snake versus this and that.

Ray Park

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!

Tony Robbins

Lt. Col. Bill Cage: What day is it? Master Sergeant Farell: For you? Judgement day.

Edge of Tomorrow

Master Sergeant Farell: [in the helicopter] two minutes to drop, it's alright to be scared. Remember, there is no courage without fear.

Edge of Tomorrow

Raoul Duke: She's doing her Masters thesis on... well, Barbra Streisand.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Thorin Oakenshield: Well done, Master Burglar! [all the Dwarves make it out in barrels]

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Wong Shun Leung: Master, you really can fight ten men at once.

Ip Man 2

[Toasting] Capt. Jack Aubrey: To wives and sweethearts. Officers: To wives and sweethearts. Capt. Jack Aubrey: May they never meet.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Barrett Bonden, Coxswain: [after pulling Calamy, Midshipman, from the water] Hello! We've caught a fish!

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Capt. Jack Aubrey: This is the second time he's done this to me. There will not be a third.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Joseph Nagle, Carpenter's Mate: Captain's not called Lucky Jack for no reason.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Jacob Bronowski

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Kwame Nkrumah

Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

Jefferson Han

When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

Robert Stromberg

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

Vladimir Putin

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Neil Armstrong

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Albert Einstein