Joe Hyams Quotes

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• 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…
• When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.
• What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
• Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.
• 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…
• When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
• 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.
• 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…
• Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.
• A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena…
• Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.'
• 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,…

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