Pot Quotes

• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Player
  • Chess

• If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Practice
  • Teaching
  • Taste

• If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Done
  • Drawing
  • Form

• I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Important
  • Fall
  • Purpose

• Bernard Leach was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical to these two men Leach and Shoji Hamada.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Differences
  • Approach
  • Critical

• For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • World
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• I do have a plan for the country the USA. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • People
  • Country
  • Needs

• Shoji Hamada's drawings were little one-line notations of something he wanted to remember about a pot or a piece of furniture or a landscape or something like that, and they were just done very quickly and they had, he thought, no artistic quality. They're not great drawings, but they served to remind him of something he had in his mind, so that when he then went to the studio, that would stick in his mind and he could explore the making of the pot with the clay on the wheel.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Quality

• Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Mind
  • Adrenaline
  • Edges

• When Bernard Leach wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Book
  • Personality
  • Persons

• Every pot is not going to be a masterpiece.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Pot
  • Masterpiece

• There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Women
  • Pot
  • Pigs

• We never had a catalogue; we never said we were going to duplicate these pots this year and next year and the year after that and so forth. We did make many pots which were repeated, but we allowed them to change and to grow as we changed and grew, and I think that was the big difference. And that's all right; we were working for ourselves. We didn't have anybody we had to pay.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Changed
  • Differences
  • Bigs

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