"I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold."

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Source : Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders

Dan Winters

#Realization Quotes #Debt Quotes #World Quotes

“There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.”
“We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.”
“I love two-lane highways. They say something about the way things used to be, and about areas that don't have a lot of people. On those two-lanes at night you get the sense of moving into the unknown, and that's as thrilling a sense as human beings can have.”
“We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.”
“Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.”
“Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.”
“I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.”
“Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed”

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