Japanese Ikigai Quotes

#1. I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.

Joe Paterno

#2. I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory ...

Jim Shaw

#3. If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Annie Golden

#4. The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you're trying to say and express.

Martin Parr

#5. The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

Virginia Woolf

#7. We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.

Marta Kristen

#8. What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ... No, another social outcast!

S.E. Hinton

#9. You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#10. I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins

#11. Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack ... taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

Jay Heinrichs

#12. Sometimes it's easier to be the one who leaves than the one who is left behind.

Maurine F. Dahlberg