Zoketsu Norman Fischer Quotes
When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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It's always challenging to go into a role.
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Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.
