Quotes from Shinichi Suzuki

A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Live by looking for things to do for other people.

If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

Man is the Child of his Environment

I cannot live without children.

First character, then ability.

I play with children so that I can learn from them.

Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

As I have said before, I had no illusions about my performing ability. But I did not know that my despair was brought about not because I had no talent but because I did not know how to develop it.

We all have unlimited shortcomings. Yet one way of seeing things is to consider our lives as a time frame that allows us continually to work at changing our weaknesses into strengths. This, I must say, is an intriguing task.

I played with children so that I could learn from them.

Our aim needs to be the nurturing of children. The moment we rigidly convince ourselves, "Education is what we're after," we warp a child's development. -1-  First foster the heart, then help the child acquire ability. This is indeed nature's proper way.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Children learn to smile from their parents.

When love is deep, much can be accomplished

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

The rose is a flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant.