Top 262 Masters Quotes

There were times in my career when I felt like I was serving several different masters, and for me, that wasn’t beneficial.

America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley’s would-be masters of the universe have discovered that energy transitions are subject to time spans and technical constraints that defy their reach.

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.

That’s what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it’s wonderful.

What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty – encapsulated by the phrase ‘no man can serve two masters.’

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

We’ve seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We’ve seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

Peter Morgan’s writing is so much about what you don’t say: you’re saying one thing but there’s 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov… they’re masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.

I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.

The Masters is not greedy. You wanna buy a Masters souvenir logo shirt? Sure, let’s go over to the nearest Ralph Lauren boutique. Oops, you can only purchase Masters memorabilia at the Masters, this one week of the year.

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It’s been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world’s top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.

I like people who are masters of their craft.

I always go to the Masters knowing I’m going to play well.

I think all of this jogging and everything else shows the people want to be masters of their own bodies and environment.

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, ‘If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.’ So it was a great thrill to play there.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

There’s a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning – that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

I love owning my masters.

It’s an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren’t really telling people what they’re doing.

For me, yeah, that’s going to be my big goal to win a Masters or Grand Slams.

I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially – this is back in 2002 or 2003 when I graduated – I wanted to move to D.C. and work on education reform, specifically with No Child Left Behind.

Who actually enjoys skiing? Come on, even Olympic ski masters, even James Bond, think that dressing up in all that fluorescent, insulated kit and having to manoeuvre down a mountain in the freezing cold is no way to spend leisure time.

The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

It’s a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.

I’ve learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Dabbling with Tagore was always scary. It happens with masters, with contemporary poets you know their vibes and their meaning. Tagore was different; his aura and the feel of his language was different.

The dream for me was always the Masters and after my freshman season on the Houston golf team I knew CBS was the only way I’d get there.

Trans people have been repeatedly told that we don’t have the right to live. And Black people have been told that by our slave masters and continue to be told that by society. We have, generationally, bled this kind of hatred.

I think I’m the first 1990-born guy to win a Masters 1000, so it’s quite special to be the first one in a very strong group of guys. There are a lot of guys playing great, and hopefully there are going to be a lot more coming.

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven’t putted well.

There’s a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We’re asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool – if you happen to be a software engineer.

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn’t really the championship of anything.

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren’t pop cliches.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can’t recognize that the world has changed or should change.

I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.

Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ is where I got the title ‘Momentary Masters.’

Being included in just the U.S. Darts Masters was amazing enough but to now be able to go worldwide is something I could only dream of.

I’ve been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I’ve had the privilege of working with the cinema’s greatest masters.

I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.

Getting a Masters in Public Administration was nothing unusual for me. I have always been a person to hold on to my other interests along with my acting career.

I’ve heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It’s in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That’s how you do well for your shareholders.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn’t know how to say, ‘bonjour.’ You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.