D. T. Suzuki Quotes

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

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• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Treat
  • Human Nature

• I usually sleep just a few hours a night.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Hours

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Vision
  • Animal
  • Human

• Did you really think I would sell you out?

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
  • You
  • Sell

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Government

• Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • School
  • Business
  • Hope

• I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Friends
  • Cool
  • Famous

• I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Understanding
  • Working
  • Modern

• Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • Family
  • Community

• I have popular support.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Support
  • Popular

• Art is when things appear rounded.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • Art

• This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. “I’m a gayrod,” he shouts marching through crowded plazas. “I’m in love with a man, and I want men. That’s what I want. I want man, man, man!

  

  Barry Webster
  • Love
  • Man
  • Desire

• Let's make one perfect day. And if it feels right, let's make another one tomorrow.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Right
  • Tomorrow
  • Perfect Day

• Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

  

  Geraldine Stutz
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual
  • Muscles

• Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Acceptance
  • Intellectual
  • Doctrine