"I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is."

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Source : Taizan Maezumi (2002). “Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

Taizan Maezumi

#Thinking Quotes

“What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.”

Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.”
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
“Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.”
“I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.”
“I hate people who cry around me. I'm not friends with them anymore. Especially girls. Cuz girls are crying all the time. It's like, 'Shut up.'”
“The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.”
“God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.”

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