Mifune Quotes

#1. When I was eight or nine years old, I saw the TV version of 47 Ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune. He played Oishi. That was my first experience. I watched every week with my brother. "Who plays Oishi tonight? Who will play Kira tonight?" And we fought every week.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#2. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Stephen Hawking

#3. There are no shortcuts because there is no end

Kyuzo Mifune

#4. Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall

Kyuzo Mifune

#5. "Ju" means being natural or in other words the way which is natural and in accords with the truth of the universe and the one that human beings have to follow. Also, "Ju" may mean anything reasonable, just and honorable, accordingly noble: namely the realization of Truth , Good and Beauty.

Kyuzo Mifune

#6. The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

Nancy Kress

#7. The more you practice, the more skill you can develop in reducing pain or at least becoming more transparent to it, so that it is less eroding of your quality of life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

Kyuzo Mifune

#9. Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

Kyuzo Mifune

#10. If the ox could think, it would attribute oxality to God.

Xenocrates

#11. Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don't get any satisfaction out of your smartness. A busy man has no time to bother with it.

George Horace Lorimer

#12. To master an actual technique, mental culture should come first.
Acquiring a technique requires a careful, modest, non-mean, free and attentive mind. In other words a player should do his utmost and nothing less.

Kyuzo Mifune

#13. The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.

Kyuzo Mifune

#14. A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

Kyuzo Mifune