"The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills."

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Source : "Scratches in the Temple Wall - An Interview with Travis Nichols". Interview with Paul Killebrew, logger.believermag.com. July 29, 2013.

Travis Nichols

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“We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India is named by the Sanskrit word prana; in Tibet it is called sugs, in Aikido, Japan, ki, and in China, chi. By controlling its circulation throughout the body, man is able to attain spiritual enlightenment or illumination.”
“It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.”
“My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.”
“As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.”
“We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.”
“There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way â€¦like Holocaust deniers.”

Source : "Postlethwaite lambasts climate deniers on eve of green film premiere" by Felicity Carus, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2009.

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