Joe Hyams famous quotes

05-13-2025

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.
-- Joe Hyams

#Important #One Day #Mastery
Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.
-- Joe Hyams

#Anger #Self #Demand
A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.
-- Joe Hyams

#Anxiety #Cosmos #Dojo
Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.
-- Joe Hyams

#Able
To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.
-- Joe Hyams

#Mind #Relax #Target
One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.
-- Joe Hyams

#Basketball #Powerful #Exercise
When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.
-- Joe Hyams

#Eye #Way #Destination
Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
-- Joe Hyams

#Spiritual #Art #Years
Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.
-- Joe Hyams

#Practice #Effort #Conscious
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
-- Joe Hyams

#Caring #Effort #Way
When you lose your temper, you lose yourselfâ€”on the mat as well as in life.
-- Joe Hyams

#Losing Yourself #Temper #Wells
When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.
-- Joe Hyams

#Fighting #Thinking #Trying

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