Greatness Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

— Pope Pius II

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

— William Shakespeare

Cooking is one of the most zen things - you have to be there.

— Roy Choi

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.”

— Steven L. Peck

“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter…

— Francis Harold Cook

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness…

— Jeff Bridges

“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make…

— Shunryu Suzuki

“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“50 Zen, read shit… BECOME MASTER!”

— Deyth Banger

“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at. This…

— Alaric Hutchinson

“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when…

— Eugen Herrigel