"When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy."

-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Knowing Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Vision Quotes

“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
“Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.”
“Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses”
“One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.”
“The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.”
“In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece”
“I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.”
“It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.”

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