"Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?"

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Nyogen Senzaki

#Cups Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.”
“Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.”
“Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her...”

Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.110, Univ of California Press
“With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.”
“Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness.”
“Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.”
“As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters.”

Source : Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.57, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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