D. T. Suzuki Quotes

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

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• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Me
  • Will
  • Big

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Think
  • Always
  • Anchor

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Think
  • You
  • Stop

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Creativity

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cricket

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Society
  • Science
  • Dark

• A woman's health is her capital.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Health
  • Woman
  • Capital

• Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Path
  • Cheating

• People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Band

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Reading

• You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • People
  • Life