John Quotes
I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.
What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.
You're playing competitive, and it's always better to play four competitive rounds than it is two because you sit there for a weekend and then you start all over again.
I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.
It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.
People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
Find the most delicate qualities within; then treat these qualities as tiny little seeds that you would plant in your heart, with you being the gardener.
When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.
When awareness believes what it knows is true, the truth of what awareness really is, moves. That movement is love.
For you to be free of your thinking mind, that will cost you the way that you've put your self together. It will cost you your patterned self.
Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.
Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.
I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.
Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.
There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
