Iwatani Quotes

#1. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.

Toru Iwatani

#2. The Tea Party elites believe government is evil. Everything about government is bad, and they blame all problems, even non-economic problems, problems that were caused by the private sector, on government.

Chuck Schumer

#3. For the time being you, too, are toying, out of despair, with your magazine articles and drawing-room discussions without believing in your own dialectics and smirking at them with your heart aching inside you

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

Jim Elliot

#5. Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents' idea of success, and you'll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

Nancy Rose

#6. I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

Sevyn Streeter

#7. I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.

Toru Iwatani

#8. At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.

William Shakespeare

#9. How did they go from Braveheart to Brigadoon in less than five minutes?

Jennifer Silverwood

#10. Even in the toughest of times ... don't give up hope. It may look dark but you will find the sun standing behind even the darkest of clouds.

Timothy Pina

#11. Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has declined by fifty percent just in the last thirty years.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#12. His stamina was so inhuman that some wondered if he was actually human. Cook worked twelve to fourteen hours a day but insisted he was not a workaholic.

Yukari Iwatani Kane

#13. Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Brian Tracy

#14. You've got to give away what you love.

Charlie Trotter

#15. You need to surround yourself with quality human beings that are intelligent and have a vision.

Vince McMahon