Quotes
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Yoshida Shoin

"If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory."

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. I, 1938.

Yoshida Shoin

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.”

Source : "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.
“Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.”
“But isn't it wrong to be motivated by reward? No, it isn't. If it were wrong, Christ wouldn't offer it to us a motivation.”
“The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music.”

Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de
“No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.”

Source : Alfred de Vigny (1905). “Cinq Mars ...”
“The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.”
“Every month brings pleasure bright If the heart is only right.”
“The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.”

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