Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

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• You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Want
  • Leave
  • Lead

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Respect
  • Doing
  • Canada

• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Power
  • Innocence
  • Convinced

• The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Doubt
  • Sympathy
  • Vulnerability

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Me
  • Bible
  • Everything

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Find
  • Conscious

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Why
  • Help
  • Philosophy

• A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Luck
  • Clothing
  • Pocket

• I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Band
  • Focus

• Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Church

• I don't have to wear any other makeup as long as I have blush.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Long
  • Makeup
  • Blush

• In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Player
  • Star
  • Religion

• Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.

  

  Luis Fortuno
  • People

• My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Time
  • Music
  • Happy

• When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Time
  • Moment
  • Expecting