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Quotes by Japanese Authors
"Passion + Purpose = Prosperity."
"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect."
"Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China."
"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
"Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you."
"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."
"The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts."
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
"I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house."
"Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in."
"A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it."
"Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it."
"There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny."
"Your vibe creates your tribe."
"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
"It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks."
"My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation."
"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
"Anyway, I forgot all about him once I graduated. So quickly and easily, it was weird. What was it about him that had made the seventeen-year-old me fall so hard? Try as I might, I couldn't remember. Life is strange, isn't it? You can be totally entranced by something one minute, be willing to sacrifice everything to make it yours, but then a little time passes, or your perspective changes a bit, and all of a sudden you're shocked at how its glow has faded. What was I looking at? you wonder. So that's the story of my 'breaking-and-entering' period."
"I know, too, why she asked me not to forget her. Naoko herself knew, of course. She knew that my memories of her would fade. Which is precisely why she begged me never to forget her, to remember that she had existed. The thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow. Because Naoko never loved me."
"Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough."
"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together."
"Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan."
"I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments."
"I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run."
"It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself."
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."
"Prayer is the maternity where ideas are born."
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