Firouz Esfandiari Quotes & Sayings

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all. — Robert C. Solomon

These Taoists' ideas have greatly influenced all our theories of action, even to those of fencing and wrestling. Jiu-jitsu, the Japanese art of self-defence, owes its name to a passage in the Tao-teking. In jiu-jitsu one seeks to draw out and exhaust the enemy's strength by non-resistance, vacuum, while conserving one's own strength for victory in the final struggle.
In art the importance of the same principle is illustrated by the value of suggestion. In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion. — Okakura Kakuzo

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street. — Denis O'Hare

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A. — W.S. Gilbert

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind. — Adam Driver

People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever ... Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists. — Matt Mickiewicz

Most of my mail comes from young people. — Richard Wilson