Jenah Yamamoto Quotes

#1. A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown ... #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#2. I always want to have a new challenge involved. I need to put myself to the test, and if I make mistakes, it doesn't matter. What matters to me, instead, is making my dreams come true and putting them on display. #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#3. Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#4. Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#5. Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do is move forward. #Quote by Hiroshi Yamamoto

#6. All abilities come from one mind #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#7. People have started wasting fashion #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#8. There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#9. If you feel strongly about someone, go up to them. Pursue what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that? #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#10. In 1993, I had my Super Show in Red Square, Moscow. No one before me had ever gotten permission to use that location and my show included fashion, fireworks, and dancing. I felt like it really communicated my heartfelt belief that all human beings are wonderful and unique individuals. #Quote by Kansai Yamamoto

#11. All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#12. Human thoughts are digital. Most people see things as 0 or 1, as black or white. They see nothing in between. All chemicals are dangerous. You are either friend or foe. If you aren't left-wing, you're right. If you aren't conservative, you're liberal. Everything that great man says must be true. Everyone who thinks differently from us is evil. Everyone in that country - even the babies - is evil. #Quote by Hiroshi Yamamoto

#13. If one has no earnest daily intention, does not consider what it is to be a warrior even in his dreams, and lives through the day idly, he can be said to be worthy of punishment. #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#14. My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes. #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#15. In a 50-50 life or death crisis, choose death. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#16. Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#17. In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things. #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#18. But sometimes he's right. 'Nothing happens if you just dream,' he said. 'You need the motivation to make your dreams reality. #Quote by Hiroshi Yamamoto

#19. All that matters is having single-minded purpose ( ichinen), in the here and now. Life is an ongoing succession of 'one will' at a time, each and every moment. A man who realizes this truth need not hurry to do, or seek, anything else anymore. Just live in the present with single-minded purpose. People forget this important truth, and keep seeking other things to accomplish. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#20. I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake. #Quote by Chuichi Nagumo

#21. It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#22. It is easy to disappoint humans. It is easy to irritate them. It is easy to make them mad. None of that is at all challenging. So we take no pleasure from it. But making people happy is different. That is extremely difficult. #Quote by Hiroshi Yamamoto

#23. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#24. There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#25. I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style. #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#26. Just as it was pointless to argue whether birds or fish were superior, debating the superiority of man or machine was also meaningless. #Quote by Hiroshi Yamamoto

#27. Being superior to others is nothing other than having people talk about your affairs and listening to their opinions. The general run of people settle for their own opinions and thus never excel. Having a discussion with a person is one step in xcelling him (...) #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#28. It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think that you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon. #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#29. Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life. #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#30. One should every day think over and make an effort to implant in his mind the saying, "At that time is right now." It is said that it is strange indeed that anyone is able to pass through life by one means or another in negligence. #Quote by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#31. At times because of one man's evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live. Here, truly, the blade that deals death becomes the sword that saves lives. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#32. The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#33. Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour. #Quote by Yohji Yamamoto

#34. Living without mistakes is truly impossible. But this is something that people who live by cleverness have no inclination to think about. #Quote by Yamamoto Tsunetomo