"Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge."

-- Higa Yuchoku

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“It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.”
“I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.”
“Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.”

Source : Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.”
“I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.”
“Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much...”
“I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship”

Source : Forrest Gander (2001). “Torn Awake”, p.8, New Directions Publishing
“Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.”

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