"For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops."

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Source : Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam

Frederick Franck

#Wise Quotes #Talking Quotes #Looks Quotes

“The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.”
“Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.”
“Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.”
“In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
“The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.”

Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation
“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”
“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”
“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.”

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