Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

We must take our friends as they are.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.

I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

I try to teach my kids to be open.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

Knowledge means being in the place where we are put.

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.