Miscellaneous Philosophy

[Andy Murray]

When I first started training.....'A punch was just a punch'
.....'A kick was just a kick'

After practicing some time .......'A punch was more than a punch'
.......'A kick was more than a kick'

After practicing a long time ......'A punch was just a punch'
......'A kick was just a kick'

Not mine, Bruce Lee?

[Andy Murray]

The Journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step!

[pesilat]

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. -- James Corbett (Boxer)

[khafra]

You have no doubt heard of those who are good at holding on to life. When they walk through the hills, they don't avoid rhinos and tigers; when they go into battle, they don't put on armor and shields. The Rhino has no place to probe with his horn, the Tiger has no place to put his claws. Weapons find no place to hold their blades.
Why is this so? Because there is no place for death in them.

[waya]

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger- Confucius

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.- Mao Tse-Tung

[Andy Murray]

You don't learn how to swim by walking round the pool!

Andy Murray

[Chazz]

When you win you sometimes looses
when you loose you sometimes win
and when you tie you sometimes win or loose
The honor doesnt come from the trophie you win but from the knowlege and respect in yourself on how you played the game.
Hold that higher than any award you my earn.

(the runner up speach by me)

-Chazz

[Cooler]

If one really wishes to be master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an 'artless art' growing out of the Unconscious. - Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki.

Cooler.

[pesilat]

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. -- Martin H. Fischer

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. -- Unkown

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. -- Robert Hughes

Tradition, thou art for suckling children; thou art the enlivening milk for babes; but no meat for men is in thee. -- Steven Crane

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. -- Thomas Jefferson

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. -- Henry Ward Beecher

[Andy Murray]

Imagine yourself back in time!

Imagine you are an apprentice Cartologist.

The firm you work for has been making maps for three hundred years.

These maps show a world that is flat, yet.................

You have so many questions about this!

Where does the water from the sea go etc.

What could my opinion possibly matter.

Do we, as Martial Artists blindly follow prescience? Or do we read twice?

[Freeform]

Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda

[Chazz]

The perfect weapon is not the blade or the gun, its the mind. With it you can defeat any opponent!

-Chazz

[Melanie]

The way forward, may be long, maybe hard, each little step, short but firm. Determination and a good grounding a step up.

(Anon)

Melanie

[Andy Murray]

When defeat comes, I won't waste my time with it.

"I'll be too busy lookin good"

Jim Kelly
Enter The Dragon

[khafra]

Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind!
If you wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find
The thing's I'll teach ya is sure to beat ya
But nevertheless you get a lesson from the teacher now

-Onion
Parappa the Rapper

[Andy Murray]

"I'm the greatest"

Mohammed Ali

[Chazz]

YUM YUM

-Mike Tyson

*LOL* sorry i just had to say that

[Andy Murray]

COUL'D YOU REPEAT THAT?

-Evander Holyfield

Chazz, I just about wet myself. Thanks mate you made my night! LOL

[Jiggy9]

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. - Tao Te Ching

"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
-- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinean writer

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
-- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),

[natxanadu]

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for
the human condition is a fool.
-- The Great Nathan

[LilBunnyRabbit]

'The greatest coward is often the greatest fighter, for they fear not to be.'
- Tsung Hi

[Freeform]

"If somethings hard to do, its not worth doing!"

Homer Simpson

[ladyhawk]

"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."
-Italian Proverb

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94)
-American writer, physician

"If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient."
-Unknown

"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
-Weinbaum

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
-American writer, author, naturalist, "Civil Disobedience", "Walden"

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
-Aristotle (384-322 BC)
-Greek philosopher

[Darzeka]

May all your dreams but one come true.

Why must I let everyone around me know that I'm having a good time by smiling? Isn't it enough that I'm still here and dancing like a fool?

Why do we insist ther must be other life in the universe then we are shocked when it comes here and abducts people to experiment on?

Will we not do the same when we find life on another planet?

[LilBunnyRabbit]

Knowing humanity we'll probably debate for a decade about what to do with it and then blow it up.

[Darzeka]

This one over we cut open and had no idea what we found in it.

This is the tape we made and sent into funniest home vidoes where we tested them for restistance to Semtex.

This is one we let the cat have - apparantly they don't taste very nice.

This one we gave an anal probe - we don't know why.

This one spoke to us so we shot it - It said something about a small package for bill murray and something about a baseball ad a pen.

This one said it would take over the world. I thought the fangs and acid saliva was quite cute so I took it home and called it Cait.

We found one that urinates This tasty Chocolate sauce. We cut that one open too to see if we can duplicate the internal organ that made it - we can't.

[ladyhawk]

" The Story Of Life"

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be (possibly your roommate, neighbor, coworker, long lost friend, lover, or even a complete stranger),

*But when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will affect your life in some profound way. * And sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart.

*Everything happens for a reason. * Nothing happens by chance or by means of good luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved,straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless. The people you meet who affect your life, and the success and downfalls you experience, help to create who you are and who you become.

*Even the bad experiences can be learned from.* In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones. If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious when you open your heart. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because in a way, they are teaching you to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things.

*Make every day count. *Appreciate every moment and take from those moments everything that you
possibly can for you may never be able to experience it again. Talk to people that you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let
yourself fall in love, break free, and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great
individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, it will be hard for others to believe in you. You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it with absolutely no regrets.

*Most importantly*!!!, *if you LOVE someone tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store. * And learn a lesson in life each day that you live.

[ladyhawk]

You can not shake hands with clenched fists.

Ability is what you are capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

[ladyhawk]

A gap in your concentration is a hole in your defense.

Only you, not the instructor, can decide your skill level.

[ladyhawk]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

--Theodore Roosevelt (April 23, 1910)

[LilBunnyRabbit]

"What the fool believes he sees no wise man can reason away."

[Andy Murray]

" Absence of body is better than presence of mind"

[stump]

The Iron thinks itself needlessly burned in the fire and beaten on the Anvil.

The sword looks back and understands why

Anon.

[Silver_no2]

'Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him'.

[Silver_no2]

"When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward."

[Silver_no2]

We are no longer the knights who say "nee." We are now the knights who say "ickiickiickiickipatangaipboing."

[ladyhawk]

Once upon a time there lived a community of caterpillars who were very happy. One day tragedy struck. You see, the town elder who was the oldest and wisest of all the caterpillars, fell into a deep, deep sleep. No one could wake him. They placed the guards around the elder’s bed to protect him and keep him from harm. Somehow in the middle of the night,a spirit crept in and locked the elder in a damp, dark cage. Many months went by and try as they may, the caterpillars could not release their leader from his terrible fate. The caterpillars had lost all hope of ever seeing the elder again. One morning a terrified guard came from their leader’s bedside shouting that the Elder’s cage was trembling and about to burst.
They carried the cage to the center of town. From a safe distance, they watched as the trembling became more violent. There was a great explosion. From the midst of the smoke came the most beautiful and terrifying creature they had ever seen. The creature had sleek and brilliant wings containing all the colors of the rainbow. They looked into the creature’s eyes and in shock realized that they were looking into the eyes of their beloved elder. They cried in unison, “Master, what miracle has befallen you?”
The elder smiled upon all of his friends and said, “within you all lies a being even more beautiful than I am. To find this creature you must do but one thing. Do not fear change, but instead, embrace it!”

[Thomas Vince]

"Believe nothing you see, half of what you hear, and everything you feel."

Edmund Keolaha Parker

[ladyhawk]

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never
been in the dark with a mosquito."

[johndoch]

"Its not the size of the man in a fight, its the size of the fight in the man that counts".

Boxing saying by ?????

[TkdWarrior]

i thought it was size of a dog? :D

There's No Free Lunch ...Honey!!!!!!
-TkdWarrior-

[Jack]

I love the one you posted, Ladyhawk. That really applies to my life at the moment (very harsh, unfair breakup a few days ago) and was very comforting - thank you! I have sent it via email to lots of my friends.


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

[Knight_Errant]

I'll just bore you with my own personal take: if you can not decieve, never insult your friends and never, ever give quarter to your enemies, that's enough to be worrying about for now.

[morphus]

"Your playing small does not serve the world"

"Who are you NOT to great?"

Nelson Mandela:cool:

More of a great quote but.........

[Ruan Long]

"Man who points gun to face, expects no head"

-Long

[pgm316]

"Stop talking rubbish and do it!"

Me :D

"The most complicated things in life are the basics"

[Adam]

"Endure! In enduring grow strong"

Basic philosophy of life for me. (excact wording is nicked from a computer game, but I find it to be true nonetheless)

[Saz]

What doesn't Kill you, only makes you stronger.

[Adam]

Aye! That be good n' proper kyokushin mentality!

[Saz]

:D

Its bloody true though, that one thought's kept me going through a lot of things.

[Adam]

I find that the best thing to think if you feel at some point that you just want to lie down and die is that the bad times will pass and you will emerge a more powerful person than you were before. That the bad times were sent to strengthen your mind and resolve. Works for my moments of deep gloom.

If you don't break down, that is...

[Saz]

Exactly my view.. what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

[Adam]

Must be a kyokushin thing ;)

[Saz]

Lets face it, its drilled into us :D
I'd lived by that for a long time before I started back training though, but it fits in with my training philosophy well

[Greg-VT]

"If you always put limits on yourself, adn what you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread through your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaux. But you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you."

Push yourself to a point where you think your going to fall into a coma, and go little further. If it does'nt kill you, it will only make stronger. :D

hehe, lol.

-grego

[zenmonk]

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"
- Gandhi

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill"
- Sun Tzu