Akira Yoshizawa Quotes

My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

Akira Yoshizawa

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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Will
  • Conquered

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• Being brave enough to just be unapologetic for who you are, that's a goddess.

  

  Banks
  • You
  • Enough
  • Brave

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • Friendship

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Child
  • Creative
  • Hunger

• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Money
  • Know
  • Position

• At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Day
  • Best
  • End

• If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Help
  • You
  • Got

• When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emotional nerve, if I could ever recreate that for someone, that would be the ultimate goal.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Home
  • Song
  • Emotional

• Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Tired

• A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • People
  • Great

• If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Control
  • Mechanism
  • Regiment

• I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

  

  Akira Yoshizawa
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Origami