Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Japanese Authors - Page 7

When facing a national crisis, we cannot allow a political vacuum to exist.

Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.

My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

I like the hot dogs at Dodger Stadium.

Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

I actually don't like playing the piano or conducting the orchestra.

Fear is there. Anything can happen at an Olympics. I want to use the experience I gained from Athens and Beijing - the fear, too - and build a me that can't lose. I will do everything to make sure I win a third gold medal in London. That target drives me. I'm bulking up and have more power now. I'll be fighting fit to take the gold back home.

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.

If I'm in a restaurant, and someone recognizes me and asks for a signature or a photograph after a drink, that's good for me as an actor.

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.

When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.

Find patience in the breath of life.

I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in 'Teardrops On My Guitar,' and she was like, 'Isn't this song great?' And everyone was like, 'Who's Taylor Swift?' And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

I feel a lot of confidence from that memory, playing final first time in Grand Slam. But also I always think that I could play a little better in a final. I lost straight sets. I didn't do well.

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

The world is in motion, as it seems.

I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

I used to clean my brother and sister's rooms. And I would go to friends' houses and clean their rooms, too.

I was also interested in formulating the path of chemical reactions.

The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art.

Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

We don't put our emotions out there in Japan. I'm Japanese, but I love to be honest.

My look is 'Poly'n'Asian' - part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.

Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

I wanted to keep Top 10 every year and that gave me a little bit of pressure.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

People who make mistakes but try their best, other people will support. But people who make mistakes because they're lazy, nobody supports.

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

I like school. Actually, I don't really like it.

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

I tell a good story.

I didn't get to wrestle at all in TNA. I wanted to wrestle, and they wouldn't let me.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.