Takeru Kobayashi Quotes

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

I'm always open to new, innovative stuff and people trying to do stuff in a different way. I knew that the theatrical release would be like getting on the launch pad for Amazon Prime but I was okay with that because I think what Jeff Bezos and Ted Hope are doing is innovative.

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

Learn to do your own thinking - don’t let other people do it for you!

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

I've always appreciated a creative approach to action, doing things that people don't expect, tweaking things to make them different.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

Dare to think for yourself.

I want to go out there and do some different things that people are like, "Wow. That's crazy. Why didn't I think of that?"

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

My direction as a person working in film has been to never get comfortable with anything I was doing. At the time that I decided to do action films, people were telling me, "Well, you can't do it. You're not that type. It's not going to work." And so obviously that made me think, "Well, that's not comfortable. Maybe I should try it. What can I do with it?" So I did that, and I'm glad I did it. I'll probably do it again, and I did other kinds of things that seemed like challenges for me, because I like being on the high wire.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.