Joe Hyams
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.Collection: Things In Life
A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.Collection: Anxiety
When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.Collection: Fighting
To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.Collection: Mind
Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.Collection: Practice
Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.Collection: Able
When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.Collection: Motivational
One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.Collection: Basketball
When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.Collection: Losing Yourself
Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.Collection: Spiritual
Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.Collection: Anger
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.Collection: Caring
Anger doesn’t demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.Collection: Anger