Zen In Archery Quotes

#1. The French Code for cheese is ALIVE. The American Code for cheese, on the other hand, is DEAD.

Clotaire Rapaille

#2. Wabi means spare, impoverished; simple and functional. It connotes a transcendence of fad and fashion. The spirit of wabi imbues all the Zen arts, from calligraphy to karate, from the tea ceremony to Zen archery.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Kristan Higgins

#4. You might be a redneck if you give your dad a gallon of Pepto-Bismol for his birthday.

Jeff Foxworthy

#5. Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

Alexei Navalny

#6. In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

#7. This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Eugen Herrigel

#8. Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.

Dennis Prager

#9. My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Abigail Adams

#10. Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part.

Jay Taylor

#11. [Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost - while thinking they are saved because they belong to the church, or were baptized.

Billy Graham

#12. Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

Eugen Herrigel

#13. Sarah often thought it funny how she would think of the characters as if they were real people who had really lived, occupying this very world with the same strength of mind and passion as their creator.

Victoria Connelly

#14. I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.

John Malkovich

#15. He almosted smiled. "There you go again. Why? Why do yo keep helping me?"
There were a million answers on my lips, everything from It's the right thing to do to I don't know. Instead, I said, "Because I want to.

Richelle Mead

#16. Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")

Walter De La Mare

#17. I visit English country churchyards where historical figures are buried.

Robin Gibb

#18. I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

Richard Attenborough