Ryōkan Quotes

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

Culture Clash is a national treasure.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.

I don't love her anymoreSoWhy should I walkNightsBy the tavernWhere I drankEvery nightThinking of her?

When all thoughtsAre exhaustedI slip into the woodsAnd gatherA pile of shepherd's purse.Like the little streamMaking its wayThrough the mossy crevicesI, too, quietlyTurn clear and transparent.

Keep your heart clearAnd transparent, And you willNever be bound.A single disturbed thoughtCreates ten thousand distractions.

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

You shall find dear, that the world is full of two-faced people and phonies.'.. And Uruvi was to discover a cruelly superficial world, which she had failed to recognize.

The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.

..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...

Let me hate you as passionately as I loved you.

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.

The plants and flowersI raised about my hutI now surrenderTo the willOf the wind