"Listening is active. It's like vision. It's like the idea of the eye projecting light, which I've heard is what children and infants say when they're asked to explain vision - that the eye projects light, rather than just receives it."

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Eyvind Kang

#Children Quotes #Eye Quotes #Light Quotes

“I really try and work very closely with the designers to be as consistent as possible to their vision and for their look because I know how intricate and how much time it takes for them to make it. My mother was a seamstress and I really honor the art of each piece that's made and so for me it's all about that.”

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“In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.”
“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
“She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.”
“People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.”
“Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful”
“It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.”
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

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