Japan Quotes - Page 29

Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.

Jay Leno

Uplifting, Beach, Team

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China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.

Jay Leno

Country, Pay, World

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The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over there." You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here. So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.

Steve Hagen

Running, Buddhism, Long

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It has been believed for a long time in Japan that things such as the constitution can never be changed. I say we should change our constitution now. The U.S. has amended its constitution six times, but Japan has done it zero times.

Shinzo Abe

Zero, Long, Done

"The Patriot: Shinzo Abe Speaks to TIME". Interview with Nancy Gibbs and Hannah Beech, time.com. April 17, 2014.

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We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

Steve Largent

Sports, Country, Korea

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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

George Orwell

Party, Writing, Squares

George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Believe, Fate, Rome

Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.73, Oxford University Press

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While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

Lewis M. Branscomb

Technology, Engineering, Practice

Lewis M. Branscomb, Fumio Kodama (1993). “Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions”, University Press of America

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We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Ties, Support, Development

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The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.' It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin's mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.

Arnold Leese

Mother, Two, Wife

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It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.

Daniel H. Pink

America, Quality, Venture

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I've been to Japan, I've been to China, I've been to Africa, I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Europe a little bit. I've never been to South America.

Colin Quinn

Europe, America, Middle East

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The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China, Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

Prem Rawat

Russia, America, People

Speech in Tokyo, Japan, October 03, 1972.

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During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Sylvian

Lifetime, Paranoid, Neurotic

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Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.

Eisaku Sato

Country, War, Heart

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Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Men, Thinking, Rome

"Satires (satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

Daniel H. Wilson

People, Culture, Want

"How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". Washington Post Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

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I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

David Walliams

Uncles, Dad, Dresses

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Dick Cavett

Hobbies, Ease, Mines

Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.250, Henry Holt and Company

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I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.

Jonathan Lethem

Neat And Tidy, America, Mazes

Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Amnesia Moon”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

Jairam Ramesh

Country, Thinking, Korea

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Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Milne

Important, Digital, Consumers

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Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

Hidetoshi Nakata

Europe, Littles, Knows

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I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

Kohei Uchimura

Sports, Strong, Believe

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To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

Narada Michael Walden

Country, Europe, America

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