Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.