Noritomo Sugiuchi Quotes & Sayings

Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. — Aldous Huxley

It is only by demanding the impossible of the piano that you can obtain from it all that is possible. For the psychologist this means that imagination and desire are ahead of the possible reality. A deaf Beethoven created for the piano sounds never heard before and thus predetermined the development of the piano for several decades to come. The composer's creative spirit imposes on the piano rules to which it gradually conforms. That is the history of the instrument's development. I don't know of any case where the reverse occurred. — Heinrich Neuhaus

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness ... — Wilferd Peterson

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts. — Michael O'Brien

Every circumstance is an opportunity to re-define your confident level. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I look at the lyrics, and if that's something honest for me at the moment, I'll sing it. — Ysabella Brave

Mrs Edith Garrud famously opened a school of jiu-jitsu and trained 'The Bodyguard', a group of suffragette sympathisers who protected the leaders of the Suffragette Movement from attack during their public appearances. — E.W. Barton-Wright

Don't you hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence. — Quentin Tarantino

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones. — Georgia Harkness

A rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life. — Vikas Swarup

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit. — Gary Hume

You trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star ... — John Geddes

We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation. — John C. Bogle