Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

Daisaku Ikeda

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• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• Nothing exists except through language.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Language
  • Nothing
  • Through

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Pretty
  • Much
  • Thrift

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • House
  • Things

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• I don't like to direct myself.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Direct

• I'm ready for a different America.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Different
  • America
  • Ready

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Tree

• I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • You
  • Film
  • Yourself

• My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Beginning
  • Things
  • Reveal

• Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Party

• We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Life
  • Fight
  • Struggles

• A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Dignity
  • Treasure