"It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road."

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Source : Konosuke Matsushita, 松下幸之助 (2011). “My Way of Life and Thinking: 私の行き方考え方”, p.52, PHP研究所

Konosuke Matsushita

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“I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.”
“The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his message comes from the Gospel, not from one ideology or another.And so, if our economic systems are not oriented toward the human person but only concerned with profits, he wants to confront the system and change it. This, by the way, is common to all the popes, it comes directly from the so-called social teachings of the church.”
“When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
“A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.”
“books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.”
“But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.”
“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”

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