"Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively."

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Source : "Budo Secrets: Teachings of the Martial Arts Masters". Book by John Stevens, 2002.

Kano Jigoro

#Environment Quotes #Situation Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media
“You should have some time to think and that's very important.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org
“I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.”
“I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”
“Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.”
“Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was--to Plato and who else? The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!”
“If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.”

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