"I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important.... The work is about the system."

-- Douglas Huebler

#Important Quotes #World Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.”
“Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.”
“The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.”
“The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.”
“A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly, it is still infuriatingly true that being beautiful without being clever is almost worth more points than being clever without being beautiful, but such are the rules of life and knitting-they are cruel, but there anyway).”
“One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.”
“Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.”
“With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.”

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