In an attempt to resume writing without the doom and gloom of my recent mood, I offer some quotes I've found through reading, listeniing, remembering and even a few of my own. Don't know why or who'll care, lets call it a catharsis of sorts, K? I'll gladly give credit as memory serves.
Ed Parker:
"Are you really going to do it like that?"
"You're not what you think you've become" (ouch!)
Paul Pearsall:
"Go ahead and give up. Perservering is not the only way to demonstrate strength. Strength can also mean knowing when to engage in enlightened surrender, willingness to give in and move on"
" Settle for second (or third or sixth) best. In any life endeavor there can only be one number one. Relax and enjoy being one of the thousands who fall short"
Maya Angelou:
(Paraphrased) "People will not remember how they met you or what you said to them, they will remember how you made them feel"
Diane Spaulding (My only true love in the 10th grade) "You want me to do what?" (comic relief here, awaiting laughter)
Me: "Most advanced martial artists that I've seen, abandon their basic training. Advanced training is certainly necessary, but not at the expense of the explosive, devastining, basic instinctive training" (Seminar 1992)
Gosei Yamaguchi: "learn to crawl, learn to walk, learn to mature, learn to grow old with Karate" (Friday not open sparring to all styles, sometime in the 70's)
Jimmy LaFond: " I guarantee you, when that martial artist drops into his deadly stance, I've cut him four or five times" (Paraphrased)
Me: (to an arrogant M.A. kenpoist at a seminar) "You are more interested in a visual presentation of your slappity-slap - slap than the pracitcal application of the movement that you've never felt in combat. Your theatrical perfomance does not instill fear in me nor confidence in your ablity to take my worst punch on the worst day of my life" (all said with no profanity btw..)
Me, and lastly for this offering:" Don't be all that you can be, if you look to attain that, then that's all you'll ever be, do what you can and enjoy what you can become"
Many, Many more for another time perhaps....
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Mon, Mar 10 2008 18:42
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