"When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash of insight. Where do these ideas come from? Supernatural? Enigmatic? Divine? You can take that any way you like. I think the human mind does a lot of things that we could call somehow divine."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Ken Ono

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Moments Quotes

“An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.”
“I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.”
“There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.”
“The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.”
“If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.
“Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.”
“Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1972). “The Ringed Castle”, Vintage
“When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.”

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