Eugene J. Martin Quotes
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Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.
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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.
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Just as feelings grow out of ignorance, intuition should grow out of knowledge.
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There can be danger in stretching the body if it’s not done properly. The same is true with the imagination and the chemistry which may give the imagination elasticity, but the soul gives a direction.
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When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.
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One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.
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There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.
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People fight not because they disagree,but because they don’t know they agree.
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Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.
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Most writers are successful in getting their readers’ attention, but fail at getting them to think. If you’re asked to explain anything philosophical to anyone, the chances are great their understanding will be superficial; it’s best they don’t understand than to think they do, so encourage them to grow into understanding and don’t hand them too much explanation.
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Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?
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All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.
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It’s past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.
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If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
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Vanity begins and ends with deception, so the reason people put interesting and attractive clothes on their bodies is perhaps the same for having uninteresting and unattractive expressions on their faces.
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Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.