"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."

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Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.50, Bantam

Joe Hyams

#Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.”
“My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.”
“Global warming is already acting upon us with an accelerated feedback and compounded effect that may be irreversible! We do not have eons or centuries or many decades. Most of us alive today may not even have the luxury of saying 'AprÃ¨s moi, le dÃ©luge' because we will be around to experience it ourselves. And if you think it will be 'interesting' or 'exciting,' ask the tsunami survivors if that's how they felt. This time the plutocratic drive to 'accumulate, accumulate, accumulate' may take all of us down, once and forever.”
“Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”
“In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.”
“The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.”
“By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.”
“Whatever I have given, I have gained.”

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