"[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's."

-- Samuel Butler

#Mind Quotes #Doe Quotes #Metaphysics Quotes

“Speech is the image of actions”
“Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.”
“If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.”
“In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.”
“The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.”
“Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.”
“Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.”
“Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.”

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