Quotes by Japanese/Japan authors (page 13)

"But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"I believe the anthropogenic effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate"

Kanya Kusano, Physicist

"When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself"

Shunryu Suzuki, Leader

"The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation"

Akihito, Statesman

"By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth"

Yukio Mishima, Author

"At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it"

Yukio Mishima, Author

"The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'"

Mako, Actor

"We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"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"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

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

Dogen, Leader

"Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act"

Mako, Actor

"I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time"

Mako, Actor

"The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

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Quotes by Japanese authors