Kenwa Mabuni Quotes

#1. I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.' - Author: Bryan Batt

#2. The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense. - Author: Kenwa Mabuni

#3. Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet. - Author: Sarah Palin

#4. A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life. - Author: Oleg Cassini

#5. A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death. - Author: Kenwa Mabuni

#6. Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better. - Author: Chuck Schumer

#7. There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles. - Author: Kenwa Mabuni

#8. The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in
Is termed violent by no one. - Author: Bertolt Brecht

#9. Sometimes I struggled to say something meaningful only to learn that silence is just as powerful as words. - Author: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#10. I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him as the greatest all-time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing. - Author: Casey Stengel

#11. When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?" - Author: Hillary Clinton

#12. Good men must be affectionate men. - Author: Samuel Richardson

#13. Isaiah 40:31: "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint" (KJV). When we wait on God, He gives supernatural strength and accomplishes the inconceivable! - Author: Beth Moore

#14. They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen. - Author: Toni Morrison

#15. Karate-Do is a lifetime study - Author: Kenwa Mabuni

#16. Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left. - Author: Kenwa Mabuni

#17. Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open. - Author: Dada Bhagwan