Issey Miyake Quotes

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Issey Miyake

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• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Idea
  • Genius
  • Twisted

• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Idea

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Suicide

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Feeling

• I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Like
  • Idea

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Crass

• So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Idea

• The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Great
  • Man
  • Space

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Purpose
  • Opinion
  • Attitude

• I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Idea
  • First
  • No Idea

• Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Idea
  • Doing
  • Nobody

• Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.

  

  O. J. Brigance
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Purpose

• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • May
  • Purpose
  • Risk

• When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

  

  Michael O'Leary
  • Business
  • Profit
  • Costs

• The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

  

  Issey Miyake
  • Purpose
  • Idea
  • Reuse