"The more obstinately you try to learn how……" — Eugen Herrigel
"The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen."
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Eugen Herrigel
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15 Quotes by Eugen Herrigel
Eugen Herrigel has 15 quotes on this site.
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Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to…
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The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make…
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Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the…
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The man, the art, the work--it is all one.
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This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at…
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In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.
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This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And…
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By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind so decisively that nothing more is left of you…
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The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment…
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I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years.…
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Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret…
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More Arrow Quotes
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18…
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks…
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
— Dante Alighieri
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Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow…
— Rumi
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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50…
— Zig Ziglar
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Sometimes you have tons of money, and still you are miserable, you are not satisfied. The bow of gratitude and…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.
— Sylvia Fraser
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Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
— Alessandro Baricco
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