I Fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 techniques once, but I fear the man who has practiced one technique 10,000 times.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.
Those who are unaware, they are walking in darkness and will never seek the light.
If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Empty your mind. Be formless like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a tea pot, it becomes the tea pot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Always be yourself.
Express yourself.
Have faith in yourself.
Do not go out and
Look for a successful
Personality and duplicate it
Take things as they are
Punch when you have to punch
Kick when you have to kick
It's not the daily increase
But daily decrease.
Hack away at the unessential.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked,
While the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,you'll never get it done.
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Simplicity is the key to brilliance
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to mine.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering
Knowledge will give you power but character respect
If you love life, don't waste time,for time is what life is made up of
As you think, so shall you become.
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
“What is” is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.”
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Real living is living for others.
Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.
Quotes of my own...
The more I learn...the less I know. (or thought I knew)
Fishing is not about numbers....it is about experiences.
When I'm fishing, the world make sense.
Fishing occupies my left brain hemisphere, so I can access my right.
