"Tea...is a religion of the art of life."

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Source : Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

Okakura Kakuzo

#Art Quotes #Tea Quotes

“I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.”
“Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.”
“Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called â€œThe Social Networkâ€] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us â€” getting Peter Parkerâ€™s outsider status to be current.”

Source : "‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2011.
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isnâ€™t all totally pointless.”
“Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.”
“To cite Enzo Ferrari, we will always sell one less Ferrari than the market wants, that's a policy that will never change.”
“I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.”
“The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.”

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