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karateone
Yellow Belt
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 39
Location: Tennessee
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| "Do your duty in all things, you can not do more, you should not wish to do less." Gen. Robert E. Lee |
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kickboxer16
White Belt
Joined: 02 Mar 2008
Posts: 1
Location: ottawa, illinois
Styles: JKD,MMA,American Boxing,Ju Jitsu
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do not train to fight
train so you won't have to fight
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Aces Red
Yellow Belt
Joined: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 50
Styles: Ryukyu Kempo (Orange Belt), Thai-Ju-Jitsu (Unranked), Tang Soo Do (Yellow)
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'People are bound not by limitation, but rather by the boundaries of their imagination.'
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People are bound not by limitation, but rather by the barriers of their imagination~~ Paul White-- 2004 |
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BillKephart
White Belt
Joined: 05 Mar 2008
Posts: 22
Location: Fort Mitchell, Kentucky
Styles: Chito-ryu Karate, Boxing
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ying&yang
Purple Belt
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Posts: 513
Location: melbourne
Styles: JKD , and 15 others
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"Its not how hard or quick you can hit, its who hits first"
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I think that there is no 1 style , and that to truly become a great martial artist and person you must take information from where ever you can. |
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Athena
Orange Belt
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
Posts: 141
Styles: Tai chi, and my own strange mix
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"Things that come fast may leave fast, things that come slow may take many years to leave" - actually...me XD
"I do not wish to die in my sleep, I would rather suffer any amount of pain than to die in my sleep. This is because if I were to die in my sleep, I could not say goodbye to those I love" - again, me 
"If you learn to die, then you learn to live" Morrie from "tuesdays with Morrie" a true story.. in fact..i'm going to give several quotes from the book...hold on..
"the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in"
"it's only horrible if you see it that way"
"it's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time i get to say goodbye. Not everyone is so lucky."
"sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you fell. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
"the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're sowrapped up with egotistical things, career,family,having enough money,meeting the mortgage,getting a new car, fixing the radiator when itbreaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and saying, is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"
"everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it, if we did, we would do things differently"
"but there's a better approach" To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living"
"most of us all walk around as if we're sleep walking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things that we automaticlly think we have to do"
"...you strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.."
"you see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do"
" The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people stand today if it isn't the family............If you don't have the support and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden once said, 'love each other or perish'"
"I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go..."
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I could quote the whole dang book, but that would be too much work XD
...Morrie is so great...too bad I didn't get a chance to meet him personally. So. here are a couple more quotes before i close off.
"love is the only rational act" Levine
"A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops"- Henry Adams
....then there are the quotes in mysiggy..again, those ones are made by moi (me in french)
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Strike first. 'Til then i will not fight you.
Everytime someone calls JKD a style, Bruce turns over.
Why do I love Bruce Lee? Not because he was an awesome martial artist- but because his train of thought overlapped with mine even before I knew about him.
Thank you karate forums, for introducing me to Bruce Lee |
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NewEnglands_KyoSa
Pre-Black Belt
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
Posts: 907
Location: New England
Styles: Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do , Chinese Kempo
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"Pain is one of THE best Instructors, but nobody wants to go to his class!"
i love that one. and credit to everyone...this thread's been around since '01! woo! 
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"Smile. Show everyone that today you're stronger than you were yesterday." |
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Bushido-Ruach
Yellow Belt
Joined: 03 Mar 2008
Posts: 96
Location: California
Styles: Self-defense MMA
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I like that one, Newengland, but sometimes pain is the ONLY teacher that gets our attention.....
From my observation.....
The best offense is a dynamite defense.....the enemy comes to you and then is no more.
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Using no Way, AS Way...
Using no Limitation, AS Limitation |
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gojustylist
White Belt
Joined: 30 Nov 2008
Posts: 2
Location: California
Styles: Goju-Ryu Karate-Do
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You can not win your life in actual combat, all you can do is hope to not lose it.
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Scott_LIFE180
Yellow Belt
Joined: 06 Mar 2009
Posts: 43
Location: Joplin Mo
Styles: American Kenpo
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When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom
-- Proverb of an Ancient King
Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion
-- Proverb of an Ancient King
Whover loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid
-- Proverb of an Ancient King
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger
-- Proverb ofan Ancient King
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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