Archer Quote by Eugen Herrigel

“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…

— Eugen Herrigel

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes…

— Eugen Herrigel

I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what…

— Eugen Herrigel

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round…

— Confucius

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first…

— Zig Ziglar

I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical…

— Paulo Coelho

“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake…

— Eugen Herrigel

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

— Eugen Herrigel

“The hand that stretches the bow must open like a child's hand opens. What sometimes hinders the precision of the shot is the archer's…

— Eugen Herrigel

You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the…

— Eugen Herrigel

In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast,…

— Ernest Sosa

If asked to sketch a picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes, sizes, colors…

— Fred Bear