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

• When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Dreams
  • Number
  • Musicals

• It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• Education is neither eastern nor western.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Neither
  • Nor

• Thinking about death... clarifies your life!

  

  Candy Chang
  • Life
  • Death

• 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