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

• 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
  • Confusion

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• When you talk about a character on a situation comedy, it's not just the actor. It's the writers, too.

  

  Franklin Cover
  • Character
  • Comedy

• My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

  

  Patti Smith
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Time
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!

  

  Keegan Allen
  • Long
  • Stop
  • Reading

• I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Practice

• 'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Expectations
  • Become

• I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Up
  • Growing

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Play

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

  

  Shunryu Suzuki
  • Time
  • Moment
  • Expecting