Matsuo Basho Quotes

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Matsuo Basho

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• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Social
  • Parties
  • Introvert

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Movie
  • Drama
  • Will

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Find
  • Jazz
  • Cartooning

• I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Like
  • Cooking

• From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Weather
  • Island

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Single
  • Problems

• I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Men
  • Like
  • Intelligent

• I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Working
  • Directors

• The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Women
  • Need
  • Last

• Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Like
  • Look
  • Oil

• Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Magic
  • Basketball

• There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Inspiration
  • Creative
  • Process

• Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.

  

  Val Guest
  • Different
  • America
  • Earth

• Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Dad

• It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time
  • Space
  • Perception

• Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Remember
  • Water

• Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Live
  • Children
  • Love

• I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Life
  • Success

• Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

  

  Matsuo Basho
  • Life
  • Live
  • Poetry