Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.
Quotes to Explore
-
Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
-
The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
-
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
-
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
-
Winners do what losers don't want to do.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
-
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
-
I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
-
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
-
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
-
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
-
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
-
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
-
I don't really see myself as an actor.
-
I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
-
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
-
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
-
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.
-
Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.
-
Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
-
The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.
