Naka Quotes & Sayings

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go! — John Naka

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you — John Naka

There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death. — Jean Ritchie

I think I signed some contract, early on in my career, that I will only kiss Steve Carell when I do a movie. — Gillian Jacobs

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment! — Philip Neri

I've seen too many celebrities fall from their morals, and I wanna come up under that and be THAT girl that doesn't need a scandal to make herself look better. — Christina Grimmie

The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present. — H.E. Davey

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill. — Chet Faker

There are no borders in bonsai. The dove of peace flies to palace as to humble house, to young as to old, to rich and poor. So does the spirit of bonsai. — John Yoshio Naka

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. — John Naka

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. — Campbell McGrath

Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master. — Albert Parsons

As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.' — Albert Einstein

Shine as if you are the brightest star. — Debasish Mridha

We are positive about our win and we know that our match was perhaps not as physical as the other matches on the weekend, so I think we have an advantage in that we have an extra day to recover. — Naka Drotske