Kurabayashi Quotes & Sayings

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed. — Neal Stephenson

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures. — Jonathan Haidt

In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will. — Carol Shields

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve. — Agnes Of Rome

Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans. — Jackson Landers

Its the shingaling, baby! — R.J. Palacio

The helicopter has never achieved much success and ... may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete. — Oliver Stewart

The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse. — Jeff Greene

I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game. — Tim Tebow

Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul. — Angelica Hopes

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. — Marcus Aurelius

The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses. — Paulo Coelho

All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead. — H.V. Morton

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful. — Orson Welles