Quotes About Tea Ceremony

#1. We're supposed to strive for harmony, and that's what the art of tea is supposed to accomplish ... but harmony is very, very difficult to achieve in this country. Tea ceremony is powerless. But it's also not such a bad thing either. You should enjoy it while you can.

Koushun Takami

#2. In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

Okakura Kakuzo

#3. Dealmaking is to movie people what the tea ceremony is to the Japanese. They are very, very serious about it.

Nicolas Kent

#4. Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

Steve Aylett

#5. Japanese tea ceremony,

Sheryl Berk

#6. Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.

Phil Cousineau

#7. Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

Shunryu Suzuki

#8. In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

Carine Roitfeld

#9. The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

Hosokawa Tadaoki

#10. Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth.

Shirley Manson

#11. Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded!

Paul F. Kortepeter

#12. Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It's a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.

Tsh Oxenreider

#13. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

Muriel Barbery

#14. There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Henry James

#15. You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.

Elden Henson

#16. It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. All

Charles Dickens

#17. One of the other pilots confirmed the hit to the base on Yavin 4 in that single quiet second before everything changed.

Alexandra Bracken

#18. Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

Benjamin Graham

#19. Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

James J. Martin

#20. We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt