Uemura Quotes & Sayings

Compassion is by nature gentle, peaceful, and soft, but it is very powerful. It is those who easily lose their patience who are insecure and unstable. Thus, to me, the arousal of anger is a direct sign of weakness. — Dalai Lama XIV

Never stop thinking, improving, innovating. — Shu Uemura

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country. — Arthur Laffer

You want to make people relaxed. — Danny Clinch

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream ... he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic. — Barack Obama

If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture - the ancient story, for example, of how the island of Pohnpei had been built under the direction of a mystical octopus, Lidakika. (I was fascinated by this, for it was the only cephalopod creation myth I had ever heard. — Oliver Sacks

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, lassies, be sure ye make good decisions, firm and fast. Those who don't know what they want get what they deserve.

OLD WOMAN NORA OF LOCH LOMOND
TO HER THREE WEE GRANDDAUGHTERS ONE COLD NIGHT — Karen Hawkins

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Celebrate your family's bleakest moments and how your relatives overcame them. In doing so, you will encounter darkness, but you'll give your children the confidence that they, too, shall overcome. — Bruce Feiler

In all the splendor of solitude ... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people. — Naomi Uemura

You can spill drinks on me, even spit on me. I'll just laugh about it. But If you dare to hurt my friends ... I WON'T FORGIVE YOU! — Eiichiro Oda

Be Brave in the pursuit of beauty — Shu Uemura

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art. — Shu Uemura

I want women to enjoy make-up more freely — Shu Uemura

All of your body is in your mind, but not all of your mind is in your body. — Jack Schwarz

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian. — Johnny Carson

Love your skin, give oil a go. — Shu Uemura

Beautiful makeup, starts with beautiful skin. — Shu Uemura

Are there any apologies more difficult than the one we owe the most? — Lexi Ryan

Personally, sometimes I'll lament the journey of an Asian-American actor, walking into audition rooms in 1999. — Kelvin Yu

Jody said, "Ma, you're shore good."
"Oh, yes. When it's rations."
"Well, I'd a heap ruther you was good about rations and mean about other things."
"Oh, I be mean, be I?"
"Only about jest a very few things," he soothed her. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy. — Naomi Uemura