Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

Daisaku Ikeda

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• I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Say
  • Conservative
  • Leather

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Red
  • Yourself

• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Song

• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Just

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
  • Me
  • Entertainment

• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Change

• What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Good
  • Money
  • Job

• But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Style

• Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Power

• The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Mother

• Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Care

• I really love jeans.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the sun, staying inside as much as possible. Now I am beginning to think the most important thing is educated sun exposure, because the melanomas of today are not caused by today's sunbathing, but by our childhoods and early adolescence.

  

  Jane Green
  • Important
  • Today
  • Beginning

• If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Challenge