Joe Hyams Quotes
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Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.
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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.
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What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
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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.
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Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.
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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.
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When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
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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 require a maximum of physical strength.
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Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.
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When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.
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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.
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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.
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