Kenko Yoshida Quotes

In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth. Someone once told me, "Even when building the imperial palace, they always leave one place unfinished." In both Buddhist and Confucian writings of the philosophers of former times, there are also many missing chapters.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

Perfection is really boring!

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Like life, the beauty of sports is that no two periods are identical.

Something that has been important to me is never to repeat myself, never to go back.

You don't want to play the same role twice.

That's the great thing about this sport: it's always different.

Every game is different.

Every season is a season of its own.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

Every game is going to be different.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I never do the same thing twice.

Each tournament is different.

We are ever evolving and never repeat ourselves.

I wouldn't want to make the same record over and over again or look the same or be the same. I think that's just human life in general, though.

I'm always looking for a chance to do something different. I don't necessarily want to repeat myself, at any time, and I don't want to just do the same guy, over and over and over again. I want to be able to do different things and to evolve and constantly try to find those roles.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.