Shikantaza Kanji Quotes & Sayings

Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up. — Robert M. Pirsig

Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield. — Bill Bryson

Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it. — Norman Corwin

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows. — Eric Maisel

He realized then what he had known from the first minute he saw her, from when she leaned out the kitchen door and called for her husband. This was the start of his life. — Ann Patchett

Fetishes ... they're the pet you feed or the beast that eats you. We'll feed your beast until it's tamed. — Tiffany Reisz

Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army. — John Belushi

However much you study, you cannot know without action.
A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.
Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? — Saadi