Joe Hyams Quotes

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

Joe Hyams

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

Joe Hyams

#3. 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.

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#4. If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. 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.

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#6. In the winter of hope, the mind craves change.

A.C.H. Smith

#7. I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No ... not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you. But then I liked you. A lot.

J.R. Ward

#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. I wrote to you months ago and you sent him here on an errand about water fountains."
"He said you loved water fountains.

Melina Marchetta

#13. 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

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

Milton S. Hershey

#17. There's nothing wrong with not liking what you don't like. I mean, the Leon Bridges that we played is a little more straight traditionalist. I like the way this plays around with classic sounds, but ...

Stephen W. Thompson

#18. I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'

Richard MacDonald

#19. But if we're going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it."
Toshak shrugged. "Do as you wish," he said. "Occasion or not, as long as they're all dead, I'm happy.

John Flanagan

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

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

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

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#23. 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.

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

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#25. I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

Kate Winslet

#26. The best way to get OVER one is to get UNDER one

Jon R. Michaelsen

#27. 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.

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

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

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#30. Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

Stephen King