Rorion Gracie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.
-- Rorion Gracie

#Self #Mind #Technique
Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves
-- Rorion Gracie

#Victory #Jiu Jitsu #Serious
In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.
-- Rorion Gracie

#Art #Getting Through Hard Times #Going Through Hard Times

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, â€œThat guy is kinda delusional.â€
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

Rorion Gracie famous quotes

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