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Chris Matakas

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery."

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Donna Grant

"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"

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Donna Grant

"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."

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Donna Grant

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."

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Donna Grant

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

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Donna Grant

"Life rewards action. To get from where you are now to where you want to be requires forward movement and momentum. Although you may already know what it takes to bridge the gap, simply knowing what to do is not enough."

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Donna Grant

"There is nothing that can replace self-development."

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Donna Grant

"If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it."

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Donna Grant

"I might not have risen to destroy people's beliefs, but some beliefs do need destruction if the human society is meant to progress in harmony instead of sinking into the depths of illustrious interhuman conflicts. Meekness-induced prejudices have no place in the society of thinking humanity."

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Donna Grant

"In terms of technological progress,the public is slower than focus group."

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Chris Matakas
"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."

Mindfulness

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Chris Matakas
"I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu."

Health

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Chris Matakas
"When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else."

Life

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Chris Matakas
"The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end."

Meaning

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Chris Matakas
"We must strive to become more daily. We must honestly assess our weaknesses and overcome them. We must work toward the highest possible version of ourselves. This is a worthy use of our time, but it is only when we do so with the ultimate aim of service to our fellow man that we really connect with something greater than ourselves. To contribute to the world in a positive way, this is the gift of life."

Purpose

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Chris Matakas
"Today's world is flooded with participation trophies. In an attempt to promote equality we have robbed our youth of the most growth-inducing aspect of competition, failing. If you want to be resurrected, you have to first be crucified. Everybody wants to be reborn, but no one is willing to die. Losing, in the context of whatever arena it may be, is a microcosmic death. When we learn from our failures and grow because of them, we are reborn."

Failure

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Chris Matakas
"The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become."

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Chris Matakas
"I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education."

Education

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Chris Matakas
"By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim."

Achievement

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Chris Matakas
"I believe the devil exists in those little, seemingly unnoticeable moments when we choose to value our own insecurities over the service of others."

Ethics

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