Gozo Shioda Quotes

#1. Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

Aaron Swartz

#2. SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.

Gozo Shioda

#3. Dad determined when the pork lard was hot enough for frying by dropping a match into it; if the match lit, the lard was hot enough.

Paul Prudhomme

#4. I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

Nick Denton

#5. If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

Tariq Ramadan

#6. There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

Dalai Lama

#7. It's soul against soul in here, isn't it?"
"And may the best soul win!

B.G. Harlen

#8. Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

Drew Carey

#9. But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

Nancy Kerrigan

#10. Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

Jane Leavy

#11. Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

John Fowles