Top 100 Suzuki's Quotes

#1. Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #2011
#2. A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #4795
#3. When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #19918
#4. For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #24050
#5. I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

Thomas Sangster

Suzuki's Quotes #28571
#6. People striving for approval from others become phony.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #29335
#7. The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #34107
#8. When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #36783
#9. You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #37269
#10. You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #38608
#11. If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #40983
#12. The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #42597
#13. People.. especially people in positions of power.. have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #43859
#14. The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #46941
#15. So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #50296
#16. So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #50525
#17. The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #50829
#18. Live by looking for things to do for other people.

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #53983
#19. Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #57844
#20. Zen professes
itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all
religions and philosophies,

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #64514
#21. You should not be absent-minded. But to be aware of the movement does not mean to be aware of your small self, but rather of your universal nature ...

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #67522
#22. Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #70618
#23. The way we live has less to do with individual choices and more to do with the general bent of our society than many of us realize. We forget that we don't need everything.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #72891
#24. When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #74213
#25. People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #78475
#26. When a new object emerges that satisfies the same purpose as an older one, the older one falls into obsolescence.

Koji Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #82757
#27. If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #84879
#28. Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.

Akira Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #85485
#29. Corporations are economic entities or structures, and yet they're allowed to fund political candidates, and when those candidates are elected, guess who gets in the door first? It's corporations.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #87632
#30. The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so ... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #114904
#31. The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #170276
#32. The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #191501
#33. If we humans are good at anything, it's thinking we've got a terrific idea and going for it without acknowledging the potential consequences or our own ignorance.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #208715
#34. In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #211477
#35. [I]f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #230645
#36. Hell is not punishment, it's training.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #245887
#37. Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #252483
#38. This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #264672
#39. Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #297092
#40. You are nuttier than a fruitcake, that's what you are!

L.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #325762
#41. New Year's cards from friends -
colored patterns
of my life

Mitsu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #346693
#42. The way to ascend unto God is to descend into one's self";
these are Hugo's words. "If thou wishest to search out the deep things of God, search out the depths of thine own spirit";

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #394957
#43. I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #484442
#44. Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #487567
#45. Christopher McCandless:I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #541806
#46. Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #594443
#47. Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

Albert Einstein

Suzuki's Quotes #598233
#48. Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #598498
#49. For pity's sake, shut your royal gob and stop with the incessant screaming!" he demanded, pressing a finger to his lips for silence. "It's damned annoying.

L.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #679484
#50. We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #688801
#51. What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #709190
#52. When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #716578
#53. The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #738504
#54. We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #754428
#55. Without ignoring the objective side of the truth, it has to be subjective as well, Buddha's whole teaching just for you, something you can taste. Not something to believe in but to discover, to experience.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #771184
#56. Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #797629
#57. A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #829796
#58. Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #852935
#59. Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!

Linwood Barclay

Suzuki's Quotes #862312
#60. If you want to read a letter from the Buddha's world, it is necessary to understand Buddha's world.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #864925
#61. Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #907863
#62. I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #921650
#63. Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Shinichi Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #946450
#64. This is suicidal ... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists. It's fixed, it can't grow, and yet we cling to this idea that the economy can grow forever. And it must. Well, it can't.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #960380
#65. The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #979247
#66. With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1055255
#67. In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake, and that rather than that being a reason for depression or discouragement, it's actually the motivation.

Pema Chodron

Suzuki's Quotes #1087459
#68. The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1094929
#69. After I read David Suzuki's book, I took salmon from my dinner plate and I buried it in the woods, hoping to assist the growth of a large tree.

Ned Hayes

Suzuki's Quotes #1105007
#70. Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1130414
#71. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1152608
#72. Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1182872
#73. We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1198372
#74. To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1216465
#75. That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1233341
#76. Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1262713
#77. Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1274257
#78. The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1276767
#79. We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet's atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1281858
#80. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1314808
#81. I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true!

C.B. Murphy

Suzuki's Quotes #1334415
#82. It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1339986
#83. My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1346015
#84. The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1350606
#85. We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1403029
#86. Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities ...

Koji Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1411322
#87. Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism ... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1432887
#88. When I look at the records and see where my place in the history of the game (in Japan with Orix) might be, I guess you could say it was a good decision to come here. It's not just me. Maybe I'll have an effect on others in the international part of the game.

Ichiro Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1481664
#89. Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1511614
#90. Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1612048
#91. It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1613506
#92. My life's been defined by my actions. I've shaped my destiny through my battles. I would rather keep chasing after my dreams until I crumble into dust than sit around waiting for fate to show me mercy.

Koji Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1613818
#93. A baby nursing at a mother's breast ... is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1614221
#94. Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

D.T. Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1679421
#95. Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.

Shunryu Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1691547
#96. Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1783491
#97. People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

Koji Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1784332
#98. Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

Thomas Merton

Suzuki's Quotes #1823511
#99. What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

David Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1830306
#100. A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

Akira Suzuki

Suzuki's Quotes #1879306

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