My favorite quotes
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Pursue excellence, and success will follow.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
"One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness." — Che Guevara.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
死並非生的對立面，而是作為生的一部分永存。
我們觀察到的並不是自然本身，而是顯示在我們的提問方式面前的自然。
Whenever there is light, one can photograph.
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent." — Ludwig Wittgenstein.
人性是人自己在歷史發展的過程中製造出來的。
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." — Sergei Rachmaninoff.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
"Elegance doesn't mean being noticed, it means being remembered." — Giorgio Armani.
生活就像一座城市：要了解它，你必須迷失其中。
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to it." — John Von Neumann.
有時候我覺得，寫作的喜悅就是找到那個我當下需要的字，或者甚至不是找到，而是尋找的過程本身。有時候沒有那個字，你要去創造它，或是找到某個文學上的比喻。有時候靈感會從天而降，有時候起點會是兩個字的相遇。比如說我發現，當兩個字比鄰而居，它們會讓彼此變得更強壯。
時間飛奔流逝，只有死亡追得上。攝影是一把利刃，在永恆中，穿刺那炫目的瞬間。
禪定，體也，寂而常照。智慧，用也，照而常寂。體用不二，謂之定慧。
當你不再察覺自己正在傾聽的時候，才是開始聆聽。
We spent our entire life trying to tell stories about ourselves — they're the essence of memory.
蒙田：「不要期望從我談的事物中，而是要從我談事物的方式中去得到些東西。」
"Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide." — Donald Woods Winnicort.