John Roos Quotes

#1. Hair has always been important.

Diana Ross

#2. The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Bernie Krause

#3. Most people are more willing to enter an airplane than jump on a trampoline. And, they're more terrified from bungee jumping, than spending hours at hundreds of meters above the ground.

Daniel Marques

#4. Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

John Roos

#5. I'm inspired by the example of Prime Minister Abe, who overcame many challenges after his first term as prime minister to successfully return to the highest office in Japan six years later, and is now hopefully leading Japan in an extremely promising direction.

John Roos

#6. I still feel like a weird kid who is about to take a punch in the face. So, I think it's permanent.

Judd Apatow

#7. What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce.

John Roos

#8. As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

John Roos

#9. I knew what I'd say to him: You're much too late. We went ahead with our lives without you.

Abraham Verghese

#10. Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Mindy Kaling

#11. A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

John Roos

#12. Direct flights facilitate business. They facilitate business-to-business collaborations. I think anything that makes it easier to bring two areas together is a significant benefit to deepening relations and connections.

John Roos

#13. In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

John Ralston Saul

#14. Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?

Nikki Rowe

#15. Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

James Allen

#16. Everyone of any import, from Jesus to George Washington, was white.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

John Roos

#18. I'm a fan of Jerome Kern and Gershwin. That's my kind of music.

Shirley Jones

#19. Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

John Roos

#20. I'd not underestimate the competitive powers of the Japanese people.

John Roos

#21. For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.

John Roos

#22. In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Michael Novak

#23. She told me the first picture I should take should be of something beautiful and I should allow it to change me." "What did you take a picture of?" His eyes shifted to the window. He stared out into the clouds and his voice softened, "You.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

John Roos

#25. People spoke so reverently of affection. For me, it seemed a torment. I couldn't believe people enjoyed these feelings. How could someone relish this excruciating need to secure a claim on another human?

S.J. Kincaid

#26. Growing up in California, I obviously knew about our deep connections with the Japanese.

John Roos