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"Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths."
"Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own."
"What Is, is more important than What Should Be."
"One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
"All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body."
"Optimism is a faith that leads to success."
"Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility."
"It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do"
"A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible."
"A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth."
"To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love."
"All knowledge leads to self-knowledge."
"Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity."
"Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul."
"A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing."
"If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself."
"Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave."
"I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect."
"To change with change is the changeless state"
"Seek freedom from the conformity of styles"