Sincere Student Quotes

#1. For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#2. The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.

George Mikes

#3. If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church

J. Oswald Sanders

#4. The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Amy Vanderbilt

#5. Rely on yourself,
and be true to who you are.
What's unique about you
is what will take you far.
Don't look to others to say you're okay.
You know it
so believe it!
show your own self the way.

Wayne Dyer

#6. They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens

George Orwell

#7. I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.

Brandon Flowers

#8. Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

Marie Curie

#9. Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man.

Chris Matakas

#10. The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

Igor Stravinsky

#11. Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Philip Emeagwali

#12. It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.

Jim Carrey

#13. Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we'd received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.

Andrew Solomon

#14. You are not your depression.

Elisha Goldstein

#15. The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

Antonio Damasio

#16. Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

Rumi

#17. A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps