Bonsai Quotes

• Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

  Sloane Crosley

  Reality, Tree, Brain

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• The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

  John Naka

  Tree, Looks, Objects

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• The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

  John Naka

  Tree

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• Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, People, Needs

  "Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism". Book by Muhammad Yunus, 2007.

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• To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Flower, People, Perfect

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.54, PublicAffairs

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• Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Bleach, Next, Sentiments

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

  Chris Pratt

  Sea, Fruit Flies, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Awards, Years, Easy

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