Yasunari Kawabata Quotes
Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.Yasunari Kawabata
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
Taya Kyle -
Women are not all single-issue voters.
Carly Fiorina -
I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
Damon Hill -
If people hate me they hate me.
Uwe Boll -
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer -
Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
Barbara Cook -
I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
Gabby Douglas -
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey -
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
Tanya Roberts -
One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
Walter Kirn
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Lance Secretan -
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright -
I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
A. N. Wilson -
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Napoleon Hill -
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Man is an extraordinarily fixed and limited animal whose nature is absolutely constant. It is only by tradition and organisation that anything decent can be got out of him.
T. E. Hulme
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
A degree is an asset, but it doesn't mean anything by itself. It's just another asset. So is being persuasive, having good personality, being smart.
Irvin Mayfield -
I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.
Bryan Callen -
When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
Natalie Goldberg -
When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
Drake -
Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.
Yasunari Kawabata