Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

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• I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Work
  • Love
  • Talent

• If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Compete

• My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Dream
  • Year
  • Jazz

• Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Know

• If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Guy

• I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Man
  • Day
  • Challenge

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Long
  • Real

• I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Fiction
  • Favourite

• One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Book
  • Know
  • Now

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Day

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Church
  • Vision

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Energy
  • Focus

• My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Forever

• I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Support
  • College

• Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • Know
  • Year

• I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Stop

• Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Teacher
  • Find
  • See