D. T. Suzuki Quotes

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

D. T. Suzuki

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• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Happy
  • Day
  • Personality

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Watch

• I know everything about Michael Jordan.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Know
  • Everything
  • Jordan

• Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Book
  • You
  • Step

• The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Good
  • Control
  • Execution

• Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Like
  • Show
  • Last

• I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Champion
  • Sure
  • Awe

• Tension is the great integrity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Tension

• The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Different
  • Small
  • Band

• Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Age
  • Cancer
  • Tobacco

• Writing has to support itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Support
  • Itself

• If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • You
  • Crazy
  • Find

• Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Home
  • Try

• And then I realized I was being checked out by GUYS! And I know they were checking me out, because they were looking at me like I look at tacos. And I thought to myself, 'Oh my god, I can turn on a man! Grins and struts Shoot!' And I called my girlfriend, and I said, 'Baby, you better not mess this up; I have options!'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • God
  • Baby

• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Name
  • Native

• 'In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity...it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong ...I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• The Big 4 tour was really great.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Great
  • The Big 4

• The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Passion

• It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Picture

• I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.

  

  Paula Deen
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

  

  D. T. Suzuki