Top 100 Yen Quotes
#1. The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.
Cynthia Heimel
#2. Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.
Tara Janzen
#3. The value of their money was imaginary. Like the nature of the universe itself, the desirability of their American dollars and yen was all in people's heads.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health caredebate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.
Anna Quindlen
#5. After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.
Martin Feldstein
#6. I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.
Umberto Eco
#7. Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
John Major
#8. I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.
Sherwood Anderson
#9. Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#10. Another thing that Denis likes about Thailand is the concept of jai yen, cool heart. The worst thing one can do in Thailand is to lose one's jai yen. This is why Thais have no patience for uppity foreigners, which is pretty much all foreigners.
Eric Weiner
#11. My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.
Mark Waters
#12. I am advocating a weak yen to a certain extent.
Naoto Kan
#13. There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
Yoshihiko Noda
#14. If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure.
Andrew Solomon
#15. the yen upturn coincided exactly with the start of a topping process in global stocks. By first quarter 2008, the yen had risen to the highest level in three years against the U.S. dollar as global stocks tumbled.
John J. Murphy
#16. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper.
Haruki Murakami
#17. Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
Iris Apfel
#18. The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.
Brian Aldiss
#19. Say something.' 'I wouldn't like to lose you, Yen.' 'But you have me.' 'The night will end.' 'Everything ends.' No
Andrzej Sapkowski
#20. If the exchange rate is a matter of pride, Japan should be only half as proud as India (120 yen to a dollar) and China ten times more (6.2 yuan to a dollar)! My
P. Chidambaram
#21. In early Meiji one yen was worth a little more than one American dollars;
George H. Kerr
#22. We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
Carlos Ghosn
#23. Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen.
Kobo Abe
#24. The whole World was for sale to anyone who had Yen or was willing to perform fellatio.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes
#26. I was deprived of the ability to feel so I wouldn't be able to feel how dreadfully vile is that vileness, so I wouldn't retreat from it, wouldn't run horror-stricken from it. Yes, I was stripped of feelings, But not utterly. Whoever did it made a botch of it, Yen.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#27. I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.
Donnie Yen
#28. I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#29. What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.
Carlos Ghosn
#30. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
Adeline Yen Mah
#31. Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just keep making choices and don't second guess yourself.
E'yen A. Gardner
#32. I think a lot of people don't realize that martial arts are just an expression like anything else. It's just that most people are not trained to punch or kick, but you can walk or run or dance, which is also part of expression.
Donnie Yen
#33. But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
Adeline Yen Mah
#34. People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;
Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.
But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,
They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face
Adeline Yen Mah
#35. With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.
Cheng Yen
#36. I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen
#37. We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.
Y. C. James Yen
#38. Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone.
E'yen A. Gardner
#39. Let money follow your dreams. Don't let your dreams follow money.
E'yen A. Gardner
#40. For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.
Donnie Yen
#42. Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.
Donnie Yen
#43. Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
Y. C. James Yen
#44. You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'yen A. Gardner
#45. Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
Adeline Yen Mah
#46. In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
Donnie Yen
#47. When audiences look at an action actor like myself, sometimes we are very easily stereotyped or characterized as one type. They forget that we are actors, too.
Donnie Yen
#48. If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.
Donnie Yen
#49. Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.
Donnie Yen
#50. When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.
Cheng Yen
#51. When we praise God in the midst of our "darkness," God is moved by our faith.
E'yen A. Gardner
#52. Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
Adeline Yen Mah
#53. In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.
Sheng Yen
#54. My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.
Donnie Yen
#55. For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.
Donnie Yen
#56. At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.
Adeline Yen Mah
#57. The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
Y. C. James Yen
#58. One thing I have discovered is that people don't want to be followers, they want to be friends.
E'yen A. Gardner
#59. I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.
Donnie Yen
#61. I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.
Donnie Yen
#62. That's exactly what I'll do, I thought to myself. After dinner, I'm going to ask Big
Brother to teach me how to read this map. With Aunt Baba still in Tianjin, there's
obviously nobody looking out for me. I'll just have to find my own way.
Adeline Yen Mah
#63. Jesus has prayed over us that our faith in Him will not fail but rather be strengthened by the process we go through.
E'yen A. Gardner
#64. Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
Y. C. James Yen
#65. Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.
Donnie Yen
#66. Be confident in who you are, regardless of what you don't have. The more confident you are, the more open you become to share your fears and challenges with your partner.
E'yen A. Gardner
#67. Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice.
E'yen A. Gardner
#68. Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong. There's a lot of restriction for contemporary films simply because of subject matter.
Donnie Yen
#69. Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'yen A. Gardner
#70. Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.
Donnie Yen
#71. Dreams are the wanderings of the spirit though all nine heavens and all nine earths.
Lu Yen-hsun
#72. I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.
Donnie Yen
#74. When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.
Lu Yen-hsun
#75. Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed-ask for more strength!
Sheng Yen
#76. When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our humanity. We can BE and when we BE. We can inspire others to BE.
E'yen A. Gardner
#77. Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.
Y. C. James Yen
#78. I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
Donnie Yen
#79. If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.
E'yen A. Gardner
#80. You don't realize it and that is why you hate who you are. You are living as someone else, so you unknowingly destroy that image everyday.
E'yen A. Gardner
#81. Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity?
Phan Ming Yen
#82. I think every actor wants to try out different things.
Donnie Yen
#83. Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
Y. C. James Yen
#84. A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
Cheng Yen
#85. There is no growth in assuming. For it does not give, it takes away.
E'yen A. Gardner
#86. The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.
E'yen A. Gardner
#87. Love holds no expectation on what you will be, it simply values who you are.
E'yen A. Gardner
#88. How I perceive others is a direct reflection of the judgments that I have placed over my own life.
E'yen A. Gardner
#89. Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.
E'yen A. Gardner
#90. When anxiety comes knocking on your door, don't invite it in.
E'yen A. Gardner
#91. In our stillness, we acknowledge God's greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.
E'yen A. Gardner
#92. There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.
E'yen A. Gardner
#93. However, if we don't confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the "prison cell" that those lies create.
E'yen A. Gardner
#94. The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
Lu Yen-hsun
#95. Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.
E'yen A. Gardner
#96. As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
Donnie Yen
#97. Be grateful always for everything and everyone at every moment.
Master Cheng Yen
#98. True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.
Lu Yen-hsun
#99. My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
Donnie Yen
#100. There is no cap to the potential within us, except when we place one on ourselves.
E'yen A. Gardner
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