The best Quotes by Nagisa Shiota

Examined from another angle, your faults and weaknesses can be weapons.

Anything can be a sword if you polish it enough.

We were looked down on, but we never stopped looking up, even when the height made us feel dizzy, or insignificant, or scared the crap out of us. We learned how to climb by taking it one rung at a time.

It's all fun and games until things get real.

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

The sooner they know the frustration of defeat, the greater their growth will be.

True feelings tend to bubble when under pressure from a big decision, sometimes conflict can be the best opportunity to strengthen a friendship.

Whether a fish lives in a clear stream or a water ditch, so long as it continues swimming forward, it will grow up beautifully.

I study too, you know. How could I teach anyone if I didn’t grow and learn day by day?

The world will always be filled with injustice. If you have time to give up or hold a grudge against that injustice, then use that time to enjoy battling those injustices instead.

To a young person for whom everything comes easily, the pain of defeat can be a much needed wake up call.

If I wasn't prepared to be flexible as the situations demands, I wouldn't have become a teacher.

The past you've lost will never come back. I myself have made so many mistakes. But we can learn from the past so we don't repeat it.

When backed into a corner, the first order of business is assessing your options.

Backup plans are the cornerstone of confidence.

Broadly speaking, there are two reasons a person feels the desire to teach something: Either he wants to pass on his successes or he wants to pass on his failures.

Exams are an opportunity to teach correctly the meaning of winning and losing, of strong and weak. Students soak up heaping helpings of successes and setbacks. Take in now what it means to win, what it means to lose.

Total victory is scoring an easy win by doing what you always do.

People with talent often have the wrong impression that things will go as they think.

If you've got time to point fingers, then how about using your head to figure out what you want to do about it?

It's all about doing the best with what you have. Being true to the person you are on the inside.

Talent is usually an invisible trait, more often that not, it's the result of work, other people don't see.

You may have grown too strong. Drunk on your own power, you forgot to put yourself in the shoes of someone weaker than you.

Every teacher secretly frets over whether the path he sets his students on is the right one. But he points the way to the best future he can see for them.

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

Reject weakness in any form.

Advisors and scholars will tell you that history is a narrative of strength. They will recount stories of the rise and fall of nations and empires. There will be stories of armies, battles, and decisive victories. But this isn't true strength - it's merely power. I now believe true strength is found in vulnerability. In forgiveness. In love. There is a beautiful, upside-down truth, which is that these moments of purest strength appear as weakness to those who don't know better. For a long time, I didn't know better. I ask you and your brother to reject history as a narrative of strength, and instead, have faith that it can be a narrative of love.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"

What can I say, once you go white, you always stay tight. Hey, I think I just insulted myself.