My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face., Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist poet (1803 1882)
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it., LaoTzu, Tao te Ching, Chinese philosopher (604 BC 531 BC)
I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty never to know the pearl within!, Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King,
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be., Douglas Adams, English humorist science fiction novelist (1952 2001)
Too much of a good thing is wonderful., Mae West, US movie actress (1892 1980)
Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play., Charlie Parker,