It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
Wilhelm Keitel

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
Walter Rauschenbusch

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua Reynolds

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
Alexander Alekhine

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.
John Norman

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
Jerome Isaac Friedman

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
Swoosie Kurtz

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
Alfred Sisley

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.
Cate Blanchett

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.
Gretchen Mol

In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Bruno Schulz

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Cassandra Wilson

Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.
John Norman

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Anne Sophie Swetchine

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
George Muller

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.
Sonny Terry

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
Fanny Kemble