Epigrammatic Japanese Quotes

#1. It isn't always hard work that does the job.

Paul Guilfoyle

#2. I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate to settle in it by their purposeful actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#5. Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all along.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

Peter Drucker

#8. All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

Emile M. Cioran

#9. The mere presence of a guitar in someone's bedroom doesn't make them Slash.

Ed Yong

#10. To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.

Peter McWilliams

#11. When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

#13. Remember this: You are the expert of your body.

Sarah Hackley