Naomi Uemura quotes

Naomi Uemura quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.”
-- Naomi Uemura

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“Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy.”
-- Naomi Uemura

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“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!”
“A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.”

Source : "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.
“I owe my solitude to other people.”
“She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.”
“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.”

Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.”

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