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Idea Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
- When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.
- As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists…
- Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already…
- We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to…
- The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with…
- No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a…
- I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and…
- Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
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- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden