Akio Morita Quotes

...the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural.

Akio Morita

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Air
  • Japanese
  • Group

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
  • High
  • Like

• Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Future
  • Science
  • Technology

• Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Japanese

• I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Start
  • Modern

• There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • World
  • American
  • Chinese

• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Change
  • Japanese

• My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kitchen
  • Italian
  • Japanese

• I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Play
  • Looks
  • Right

• Because my hair is curly, I used to do all the straighteners, the Japanese this and the Brazilian that. And at the end of the day, your hair ends up not having a texture, not having the body - no shine. You're pretty much frying your hair. So understand the type of hair you have and do the best with what you have.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Important
  • Think
  • Relation

• I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • You
  • Lie

• What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Want

• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • People
  • Art
  • High

• I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Japanese

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

  

  Paul Watson
  • World
  • Nature
  • High

• I'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People

• I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • Marriage

• I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Trying
  • School
  • High

• ...the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Japanese