Softbank Quotes & Sayings

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power. — Seneca The Younger

It's not about how big or expensive a present is, it's the thought that is so nice. — Dionne Bromfield

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone. — Masayoshi Son

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. — Elon Musk

Why target two and a half million innocent newborns and children?" Barbara Loe Fisher asks of the hep B vaccine. The implication behind the word innocent is that only those who are not innocent need protection from disease. All of us who grew up during the AIDS epidemic were exposed to the idea that AIDS was a punishment for homosexuality, promiscuity, and addiction. But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When I was a child, I asked my father what causes cancer and he paused for a long moment before saying, "Life. Life causes cancer." I took this as an artful dodge until I read Siddhartha Mukherjee's history of cancer, in which he argues not only that life causes cancer but that cancer is us. "Down to their innate molecular core," Mukherjee writes, "cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves." And this, he notes, "is not a metaphor. — Eula Biss

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. — Mahatma Gandhi

You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you."
"Why not?"
"He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own."
"Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him. — Grace Burrowes

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness. — Hannah Arendt

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row. — Dominique Wilkins

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters. — H.L. Mencken

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success. — Frederick Lenz