Gata Quotes

#1. When I was taught the Gyokko Ryu Koshijutsu Kihon Gata, there were in this engendering of
fundamental form the eight methods. *I was told that this kihon happo is the origin of all budo.
So I say to you earnestly, you make this the basis and teach it to your students.

Toshitsugu Takamatsu

#2. This level of operational and organisational perfection for a body that has a scourge as unpredictable as terrorism to deal with is nearly utopian, but it is what GATA must strive to reach, a pursuit that must be written in its DNA.

Ray Anyasi

#3. I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

Joseph Conrad

#4. Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon

#5. Success does not come by itself; you need to fight for it.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. It wasn't a good-bye, not really.
What was the word for parting?
Anoshe.
That was it.
Until another day.

V.E Schwab

#7. Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.

Billy Collins

#8. Try arguing the virtues of Nello on chowhound, or a similar online meeting ground for knowledgeable food nerds, and prepare to get pilloried.

Anthony Bourdain

#9. As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#10. The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Tony Burgess