Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Believe me, you can have anything you want—and in abundance—when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them—in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
—Peter Senge (b.1947) American Management Consultant, Author, Scientist
Every master was once a disaster.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.
—Max Lucado (b.1955) American Author, Minister, Speaker
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
I operate according to a definite, unerring law…I know the outcome before I start.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
—Dan Millman (b.1946) American Children’s Books Writer, Sportsperson
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
The eye of the master will do more work than both of his hands: not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
There is nothing so good to make a horse fat, as the eye of his master.
—Diogenes Laertius (f.3rd Century CE) Biographer of the Greek Philosophers
It is not only paying wages, and giving commands, that constitute a master of a family; but prudence, equal behavior, with a readiness to protect and cherish them, is what entitles man to that character in their very hearts and sentiments.
—Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician
It’s important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
It is fairly predictable, however, that when you’ve finally mastered something and gotten rid of the fear, you will feel so good that you will decide that there is something else out there you want to accomplish, and guess what! The fear begins again as you prepare to meet a new challenge.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
—Michelangelo (1475–1564) Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet, Engineer
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
When we wake up to the potential power within, our impulse is to grab it all “quick”. The more we grab, the more it seems to elude us. There is no quick. There are quick—and wonderful—seminars, workshops, books, and audios that give you tools, but they are not quick tools. They are to be used and mastered throughout a lifetime.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one’s entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one’s life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.
—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
—Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
If you use these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your possibilities.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
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