Quotes

                                            

It took me quite a long time to collect these quotes from various luminaries. None of them belong to me, they are all from someone. They don't have any particular structure in them, besides the fact that I found them very interesting. They had that certain....something that made me copy and save them....and now I share them. Many of  them have to do with the martial arts and way that I adore so much, there are other both eso- and exoteric topics too. This collection is a very personal one and I thank those men and women whose wisdom I am or have borrowed I suppose. Well....you be the judge...

Relaxation creates no force. Extreme yin that manifests itself as a yang by moving retaining its soft center.

In the words of the Mongolian Tiger: before I was a tiger strong but unapproachable, now I’m like a house cat – some nice women can put me on her knees and pet.

It is a difficult task to enter the spirit of a past time, as Goethe's Faust complains to Wagner: bygone days are a book with seven seals, and what we call the spirit of the times is basically our own spirit, in which the times are reflected.

Reputation for power is power

Thomas Hobbs

listen to the falling rain as it falls

Uknown

History and archaeology both show us that no progress in the quality or quantity of arms can secure peace. It can only lead us into ever more horrible and inhuman wars.

Thor Heyerdahl

He is gonna be a pretty sour, bruised up boy for quite a while starting with right now.

Announcer at Marciano vs. Lastarza

What is ‘power’?

Here is the definition as a noun:

the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

Here is the definition as a verb:

move or travel with great speed or force.

Dr. Hammond

VALKNOT:Appearing in ancient sacred images associated with Odin. The "knot of the slain" is the symbolic sign of the coming together of the powers from the 9 worlds of the universe. This is the symbol of Odin, showing his power to bind or loosen the minds and souls of man, subtly affecting the knotted web of fate as he lays bonds upon them, so that they become helpless in battle, or he could loosen the grip of fear by his gifts of intoxicating battle-madness and divine inspiration. Valknot.

Odinvolk website,

“If you are in the character you can do anything”

Clint Eastwood

“And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”

Fredrick Nietzsche

Ayaw na mayan kaw magtimud sin way na (Don't try to scrape the plate when there is no more...) 

Bodhi Chenevey

The one that really sticks out in my mind comes from my mom. She’d always tell me that you have to be your best on your worst day, because what if the Olympics fall on a bad day?”

Linda Rousey

Think not lightly of your Guru should he lack letters and learning. Take the Truth he teaches and ignore the rest. Know well that a boat, painted and adorned, will carry you across the river; so also will one that is plain and simple

Avadhut Gita

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

Morihei Ueshiba

Pride is the beginning of inattention, and the origin of destruction.

Tokimune Takeda

"The more you know you're a man, the more you become a god”

Athenian graffito.

“Charity starts first at home”

Muhammed Ali

Еще 50 лет назад ленинградская улица меня научила одному правилу: «Если драка неизбежна, бить надо первым».

V.V.Putin.

Дружба между мужчиной и женщиной очень слабеет при наступлении ночи

"Friendship between a man and a woman weakens considerably with the advent of the night"

Otto von Bismarck.

“Virtue is not photogenic”

Kirk Douglas

“Samootravlenie sobstvennoi fantaziei”

“Self-poisoning with self-fantasizing.”

Dostoevski

“The line isn’t wrong until you put a next one down”

Miles Davis answering a question about drawing.

E poi... volevo dirti che io ti amo che ti amo non meno di una volta, che ancora tu sei l'anima dell'anima mia. (G. D'Annunzio, Il piacere)

А потом ... Я хотел сказать вам, что я люблю тебя Я люблю тебя не меньше, чем когда-то, что до сих пор ты душа моей души. (Г. Д'Аннунцио, удовольствие)

“Na vremja obijatsa opasno I glupo”

"It's dangerous and stupid to be mad at time"

Director, Mark Zakharov

"The most beautiful sound I ever heard, was the sound of your key in the door of my life." -Bukowski-

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” —Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short

Author Adam Hochschild

paper is luxury. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Coco CHANEL.

Study the kata completely, and then move freely without being hindered by the kata. However, all of that is kata. This is perfection. Sugino Sensei

Thanks for participating!

Iggy.