Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Japanese Authors - Page 6

I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it.

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

You have a good side and bad side, real side. Then I put that on in the ring. My character, my personality in the ring, came from heel stuff.

Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of humanity, as I've continued that, I have ultimately lent towards philosophy and psychology but it is not something in which I try to study.

The Tokyo Dome is a huge venue, so for us, its such a prestigious opportunity.

All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.

I will remain active in judo.

I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It's about being very vulnerable.

I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it's more interesting that in real life, things aren't exactly the way you planned.

I was living in Paris for, like, a year and a half, and I couldn't speak French, so it was just hard to get a baguette or a pastry or whatever. All the stores close at 6 o'clock, and they're not very into hospitality, so it's not a convenient city. It's so pretty, though, but I was raised in Tokyo, so it was hard to understand.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway places or shopping sprees are no longer necessary. All you have to do is eliminate what you don't need by confronting each of your possessions properly.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons.

I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

I was originally a minimalist, so that's my foundation.

I always keep a small timer next to me to tell me how many seconds I have to wash each part of my face.

We don't have a jewellery background, so we just come up with these things that we wanna wear, that we wish were out there, you know?

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

So for me it's more than happy to see many patients - often I can see them telling me, 'You saved my life.' This is my most enjoyable and, I would say, I'm very pleased to hear what I have done is really meaningful.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

Japan had the big earthquake in 2011, and the Olympics will be a good opportunity to bring strength to the people of the Tohoku region - and also to show everyone around the world that Japan is doing fine again. These are messages we have to convey through the power of sport.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

If I want to draw more in a particular scene that I think is important, because of time I cannot. That's hard for me. But I've always wanted to be a manga-ka, so I'm doing what I love.

People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.

It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there.

We are aiming to create a new genre with a new style in terms of visuals and sound. A mixture of dance and metal which strays away from the traditional or conventional metal band.

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

I am advocating a weak yen to a certain extent.

There was a lot of passion with Klopp, I felt that most in the dressing room before games. He always had a big smile. He hugged every player. I loved his attitude - he was never nervous. He gave us confidence.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.