"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest."

-- Takuan Soho

#Missing Quotes #Tree Quotes #Forests Quotes

“If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.”
“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
“Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.”

Source : "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.
“Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative.”
“I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.”

Source : moss hart (1959). “act one”
“Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.”
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”
“We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.”

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