A Quote by Shunryu Suzuki

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Shunryu Suzuki

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Shunryu Suzuki
Japanese - Leader
May 18, 1904 - December 4, 1971

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

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Todd Solondz

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

David Wright

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Clint Eastwood

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Jakob Dylan

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

Al Pacino

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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Chael Sonnen

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.

Theodor Haecker

I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.

Ben Howard

As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

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I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

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As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.