"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create."

-- Ed Parker

#Taught Quotes #Martial Arts Quotes #Study Quotes

“I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.”
“I challenge you to a duel!â€ screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”
“My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.”
“The other day John McCain appeared on the show 'The View,' and one of the hosts accused McCain of being a liar. Yeah, she may have a point, because McCain started the interview by saying, 'Ladies, you look beautiful.'”
“I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.”
“Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.”
“Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.”
“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”

Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.

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