Nyogen Senzaki Quotes

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

Nyogen Senzaki

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• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

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• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

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• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

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• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

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• During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

  

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• Art matters.

  

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• We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

  

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• Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

  

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• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

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• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

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• Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.

  

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• First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and devote the same to the supreme head of the Universe - to that great and tremendous Jehovah, - Who created the universal frame of nature, worlds, and systems in number infinite . . . To this awfully sublime Being do I resign my spirit with unlimited confidence of His mercy and protection . . .

  

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• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

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• Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

  

  Nyogen Senzaki
  • Opinion
  • Empty
  • Speculation