"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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“My instinct is to be very controlling.”
“As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for any period of time. Like the farmer who casts his seed upon the rocks, all the positive thoughts in the world presented to the depressed mind will not bear fruit.”

Source : Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr
“I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!”

Source : Edith Södergran, David McDuff (1984). “Complete poems”, Dufour Editions
“The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

Source : "The Imitation of Christ. Book I, ch. 16". Book by Thomas a Kempis, 1418.
“The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.”

Source : "Aubrey O’Day: I wanted to make a real reality show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. April 11, 2011.
“The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.”

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