Yip Man Quotes

#1. If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

Jonas Salk

#2. Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

Yip Man

#3. I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

Bryan Greenberg

#4. Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.

Yip Man

#5. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

A. J. Langer

#6. It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

William H. Calvin

#7. If everything goes right then I can get going.

Lionel

#8. The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.

Yip Man

#9. I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.

Dave Ramsey

#10. We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.

Yip Man

#11. Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact

Yip Man

#12. I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

George Saunders

#13. The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.

Brad Wilcox

#14. There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

Diane Wakoski

#15. The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.

Amy Chua

#16. It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

Yip Man

#17. I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

Chris Pronger

#18. I told myself that I was letting him keep his dignity, while choosing to forget that for thousands of nights, he sacrificed it.

Hanya Yanagihara

#19. Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#20. All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

Pedro Almodovar

#21. Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

Yip Man

#22. There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.

Yip Man

#23. The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.

Yip Harburg

#24. My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.

Kumail Nanjiani