Colin Clark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
Can't win without talent, you know.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.
I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

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