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"After I received my blue belt, I soon recognized that the belts were simply an external representation of an inner experience, and that they mattered little compared to the person I was becoming."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
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Personal Development
"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."
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Personal Development
"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."
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Personal Development
"Nothing happens until something moves."
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Personal Development
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
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Personal Development
"Failure is only a step towards success."
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Personal Development
"Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them."
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Personal Development
"If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!"
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Personal Development
"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations."
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Personal Development
"If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!"
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"The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become."
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"To base your self worth relative to others is to play a losing game. If you are at the bottom, you will be filled with self-loathing. If you are at the top, you will be filled with self-aggrandizement and ego. This will most certainly be one of your greatest obstacles to achieving whatever degree of mastery you are capable."
Psychology
"An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius."
Wisdom
"There is nothing like another's perspective to remind you that your way is not the right way, it is simply your way."
Philosophy
"I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in my most basic self. I wanted to chip away at all of the nonsense I have acquired through my twenty-nine years on this earth. I wanted to find truth. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. Jiu Jitsu has peeled the veil of daily life, and has shown me what lies beyond the curtain. We willingly accept the chains that circumstance forces upon us, and we grow to find comfort in them. We attach various fetters of day-to-day living to our being, and we do so with a smile. We accept these constraints for they come in the way of comfort. We accept conformity for it appears the path of least resistance. We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves."
Philosophy
"We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits."
Growth
"Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one."
Communication
"In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn."
Mastery
"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."
Learning
"The highest aim was never to master Jiu Jitsu, it was to master myself."
Mastery
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