Ohta San Quotes

#1. Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.

Jake Shimabukuro

#2. That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.

Cindy Margolis

#3. The horror is having profound power in one hand and a strong moral sense in the other and absolutely no foundation to stand on.

Brent Weeks

#4. I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Jon Johansen

#5. Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.

David Whyte

#6. If at times my words seem angry, you must forgive me. In my mind, there is great anger. No one who has seen the suffering of our children and the tears of our grandmothers cannot be angry. But in my heart I struggle to forgive, because the land is my teacher, and the land says to forgive.

Kent Nerburn

#7. It's good to plan, but don't let the planning take the place of doing.

Karen McQuestion

#8. If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#10. The barriers of impossibility, which close off the field of reality to our dreams and desires, were shattered, and his thoughts drifted exuberantly through the unattainable, fired by their own movement.

Marcel Proust

#11. Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

Jim Conroy

#12. Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.

Tom Chatfield

#13. I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.

Tanya Masse