Bizen Ware Quotes & Sayings

There's a floating distraction in the contemporary world, life at a distance enabled by technology. I want people to commit at the level of their subjectivity. The idea of subjective commitment is at the core of ethics, something that divides the self from itself. I become an ethical self. I cannot meet that ideal, I cannot fulfill it, it divides me from myself and it makes me strive harder. This ideal subjective ethical drive is at the heart of an absolutely earnest, radical politics that insists that people will be able to engage with each other, and they're lifted from irony at that point. — Simon Critchley

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible. — Frances Moore Lappe

Love teaches a good person to do bad and a bad person to do good. — Heenashree Khandelwal

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world. — Mark Leyner

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do-there are only so many notes one human being can master ... One of the reasons we're going out on the road and why we're titling this tour as "Musicology" is because we want to bring that back. We want to teach the kids and musicians of the future the art of song writing, the art of real musicianship. — Prince

Success to me does not mean money. — Ziggy Marley

These Humans, huh?' Sissix said to Dr Chef. 'I took some time to freak out. Didn't you?' 'I sure did,' Dr Chef said. He handed Rosemary a clean cloth. 'Once I'd medicated Ashby and got his bots going, I locked myself in my office and yelled for a good ten minutes.' 'That's what that was?' Ashby said. He had a dim memory of layers upon layers of haunting chords, cutting through the waves of pain. 'I thought you were singing. It was really pretty. — Becky Chambers

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful. — Jason Calacanis

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste. — Bill Callahan

I don't believe in one ideal beauty. — Zac Posen

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae. — William Osler

Nobody's listening to me, he thought, story of my life. — Alexandra Robbins

some things, once altered, are not easily undone. — Nicholas Ponticello

Greatest quality of money is whether coming or going leave tears in the eyes of beholder. — Kishore Bansal

Nothing will have more impact on the future of the world than for each of us to find out why we were born and to do it. Human beings tend to do this when parents, teachers and other mentors invite us to it. — Oliver DeMille