Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Daisaku Ikeda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: January 2, 1928

Topics

NatureFailureHappinessResultGoal

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

PaintingThinkPictureAbstractLow

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

Matt Lauer

BrainChocolateRememberSimilarities

Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.

John Updike

AmericaTaxTurnedHavenReagan

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

Steve Coogan

I AmAppreciationFamousAmericaYou

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

Steven Berkoff

ClassMoreDishonestyWorkingMiddle

Unfortunately, most of Congress has little to offer except making noise and knowing how to move up the bloated political chain.

Robert Blaha

PoliticalCongressKnowingUpNoise

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

WorkLiveKnowledgeChildrenWorld

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene. I like a director that encourages me to be playful.

Julia Stiles

TimeMeSearchGivingDoingYou

In a way, we're going backwards. In the early '80s, it was like all these huge strides, and everything was more free and easy. I think we're going back. I don't know if it's the economics or what, but things are getting more right-wing, definitely.

Boy George

EconomicsFreeThinkBackEarlyWay

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Arundhati Roy

FreedomMoneyWarPeopleMeThink

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

Priyanka Chopra

LoveGoodCinemaBeingDifferent

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

Phil Lesh

PeopleHurtSeriouslyTopRoofPark

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