#samurai

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills. ↗

— Eiji Yoshikawa

#war #warrior #art

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them. ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#samurai #manga

Quentin wanted to create this special world in which everybody walks around with a samurai sword, extras in the airport, a special little place in the airplane to stick your samurai sword. ↗

— David Carradine

#airport #around #create #everybody #extras

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#celebrated #certain #code #could #create

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#business #cut #dying #get #head

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#because #compassion #find #go #help

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#body #different #fighting #much #position

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#day #doing #every #every day #fighter

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. ↗

— Stan Sakai

#be prepared #death #else #his #own

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#everything #genre #i #i am #lover