Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• I watch a lot of television. I always have.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Always
  • Television
  • Watch

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Process

• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Writing
  • View

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Now

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Know

• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• There are a lot of challenges I undeniably have faced as a black person both in the U.K. and in the U.S. that contrived to make me feel lesser than what I am.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Black

• With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.

  

  Chellie Pingree

• I drank because I enjoyed it. I was happy sitting at the end of the bar on my own, reading the paper. I've always enjoyed my own company, and that stems from riding alone. I never trained with anyone - and I still don't. I've always been happy with my own thoughts, and that sums me up as an individual-pursuit rider.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Reading

• It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Live
  • Morning

• We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

  

  David Hockney
  • Live
  • Age

• To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Live
  • Die
  • Practice