Hyams Quotes

#1. To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

Joe Hyams

#2. Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

Joe Hyams

#3. For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.

Joe Hyams

#4. Speech is always bolder than action.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. - JIM LAU

Joe Hyams

#6. For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? - BHAGAVAD GITA

Joe Hyams

#7. When you lose your temper, you lose yourself - on the mat as well as in life.

Joe Hyams

#8. Life is hell, and the sweet still night of absolute death is the annihilation of hell.

Thomas Ligotti

#9. All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

Robert Payne

#10. No resource will flourish if managed by government.

James Cook

#11. One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

Joe Hyams

#12. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

#13. I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.

John Hyams

#14. Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

Joe Hyams

#15. When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.

Joe Hyams

#16. We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death. Vanity is the only obstacle to life.

Joe Hyams

#17. To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.

Joe Hyams

#19. There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

John Hyams

#20. I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films the point of view has been taken into account and established.

John Hyams

#21. What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Joe Hyams

#22. Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Joe Hyams

#23. Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

Joe Hyams

#24. I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

Samantha Shannon

#25. I really only became an editor, or started doing my own editing because I was filming the docs and you simply can't keep an editor on for as long as it takes so.

John Hyams

#26. I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones.

Charles Davis

#27. Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

Justine Hail

#28. In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.

Shawn Levy

#29. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

Joe Hyams

#30. I never really had any intention of getting involved in documentaries until the opportunity came around. I always thought much more in classic fiction cinema terms and I think I tried to apply those ideas to documentaries and not vice versa.

John Hyams

#31. A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

Joe Hyams

#32. Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

Joe Hyams

#33. Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.

Joe Hyams

#34. When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

Joe Hyams

#35. Even though it can be hopeless, or unhealthy, or just stupid, we love anyway. Because that's what love is. Choosing to give it, especially when you shouldn't.

Kelsey Sutton

#36. The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Karl Marx