Another good one.
Training is not a process of adding on, but rather, one of chipping away at the inessentials until the essence has been revealed. - Bruce Lee
pain is temporary ,pride is forever
its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog"
Mufasa, your “unknown author” is Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). He was a public speaker, poet, and essayist. He led a movement called “Transcendentalism”. He was way cool for his time.
I have two favorites. One is attributed to several people, but usually Mark Twain. It goes “Age is a thing of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” The other is by George Eliot. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
Ender: THANKS!!! (Now I’m pretty embarrassed!) I will often see a quote somewhere, copy it and place it in a file of quotes. I am SURE that this was not out of a book on or about Emerson, and for some reason, as I look back on the original copy, it says “unknown author”. (Wow…did someone really blow that one!) Again, thanks!
“Fear me, for I have the power to destroy you.”
“That which we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
Hmm…Let’s see. “I got mad” a reply from famous WWII sub skipper Red Ramage when reporters in Hawaii asked him about what happened when he performed the most daring night surface attack ever done, and thoroughly wrecked most of a group of Japanese warships.
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much bourbon is just enough " Samuel Clemmons AKA Mark Twain.
“Hoo-ah!” Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman.
“Cause she has a great ASS! And you got your head all the way up it” Al Pacino in heat!
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. Wesley Snipes, Blade.
“A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.” --Howard Hendricks
“Facts?! Facts are useless. You can prove anything that’s even remotely true using facts.” Homer Simpson
Although others have said it I’m sure, this Gunny I knew, when told something sucks, would say “It’s not as bad as a sucking chest wound”.
Research your own experience.
Absorb what is useful.
Reject what is useless.
Make everything uniquely your own.
As told to me by Danial Inosanto attributed to Lee Jun Fan (Bruce Lee)
If you can’t eat it, drink it, or fuck it, piss on it.
Up yer nose with a freakin hose. Regis Filbin
“When we lose the right to be different…We lose the privilege to be FREE.”–Charles Evans Hughes
“If you always put limits on yourself and the things you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaus. But then you must not stay there. You must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”–Bruce Lee
All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you’re not good enough or strong enough or talented enough.
They’ll say you’re the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.
THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no until all the no’s become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
They will tell you no.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES
–NIKE–
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion-Bruce Lee
“I’m Buff…and you’re not the Stuff”- Marcus “Buff” Bagwell
Anything Val Kilmer says as Doc Holiday in Tombstone…my personal favorite, “Wyatt, I am rolling.”
“I’m not an asshole, but I do have an aptitude for it.”