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> [The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/the-right-shot-at-the-right-moment-does-not-come-because-you-do-not/)

[Eugen Herrigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugen-herrigel/)

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## More by Eugen Herrigel

> [This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/this-means-that-the-mind-or-spirit-is-present-anywhere-because-it-is/)

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> [You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/you-can-learn-from-an-ordinary-bamboo-leaf-what-ought-to-happen-it/)

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> [The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/the-more-a-human-being-feels-himself-a-self-tries-to-intensify-this/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/don-t-think-of-what-you-have-to-do-don-t-consider-how-to-carry-it-out/)

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> [I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/i-must-only-warn-you-of-one-thing-you-have-become-a-different-person/)

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> [Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/assuming-that-his-talent-can-survive-the-increasing-strain-there-is/)

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> [He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/he-grows-daily-more-capable-of-following-any-inspiration-without/)

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> [Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him ……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/often-nothing-keeps-the-pupil-on-the-move-but-his-faith-in-his/)

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> [“And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils copy it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/and-what-impels-him-to-repeat-this-process-at-every-single-lesson-and/)

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> [You must act as if the goal were infinitely far off.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/you-must-act-as-if-the-goal-were-infinitely-far-off/)

[Eugen Herrigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugen-herrigel/)

> [The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/the-spider-dances-her-web-without-knowing-there-are-flies-that-will/)

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> [In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/in-the-case-of-archery-the-hitter-and-the-hit-are-no-longer-two/)

[Eugen Herrigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugen-herrigel/)

> [The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/the-hand-that-guides-the-brush-has-already-caught-and-executed-what/)

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> [The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/the-more-obstinately-you-try-to-learn-how-to-shoot-the-arrow-for-the/)

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> [Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugen-herrigel/far-from-wishing-to-awaken-the-artist-in-the-pupil-prematurely-the/)

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