Koan Examples Quotes

#1. What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?

Frank Herbert

#2. I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in some terrible times. I'll get to wear a uniform.

Ben Kingsley

#3. For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

Patrick Stump

#4. It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Wallace Stevens

#5. When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Xun Zi

#6. From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Dean Koontz

#7. Don't try to push your swoony psychodrama on me.

Marissa Meyer

#8. For a story to be good it has to be in some way your own.

Me

#9. History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.

Alison Goodman

#10. Tresha. It was the thankful, humble, vulnerable feeling that came after someone saw a truth in you, something they had discovered just by watching, something that you did not admit often to yourself.

Becky Chambers

#11. I'm kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it's as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels.

Ryan Coogler

#12. If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Thomas Bulfinch