Gozo Shioda famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.
-- Gozo Shioda -
Today's aikido is so dimensionless. It's hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That's why it seems so much like a dance these days. You have to master the very basics solidly, with your body, and then proceed to develop to the higher levels.... Now we see nothing but copying or imitation without any grasp of the real thing....
-- Gozo Shioda
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You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
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I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
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He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified. 'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't." He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?' I nodded, shame flushing my skin. 'Is it going to stop you?' 'No.' 'That is the courage of a warrior.
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I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and the certain Islamic takeover of Europe to completely annihilate European Christendom within the next hundred years he must ensure that the warriors fighting for the preservation of European Christendom prevail.
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I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.
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Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.
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Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
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Good things happen when you narrow your focus
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It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
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Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
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