Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

Daisaku Ikeda

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• Reality
• Environment
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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Time
  • Diversity
  • Evolution

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Theory
  • Worth

• I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • American
  • Think

• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Church
  • Bible

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Greek
  • Oil
  • Transform

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Career
  • Tears
  • Blood

• Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Economy
  • Down
  • Grow

• Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Doubt
  • End
  • Tree

• I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Like
  • Never

• Sometimes I think I don't need a vacation because I do what I like to do. I am very fortunate!

  

  Enric Sala
  • Vacation

• If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

  

  Don King
  • Faith
  • Water

• I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • More
  • Vietnam

• Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Value

• We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

  

  Wes Moore
  • Environment
  • Expectations
  • Products

• Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Environment