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“It is difficult to understand the universe if you study only one planet.” ~ Miyomoto Musashi

“You have to keep training if you want to improve. It’s a fair game. If you practice, you improve. You can’t buy it.” ~ Chow Hung-Yuen

“Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses… He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.” ~ Gichin Funakoshi

“It’s not the number of years you put in, it’s the number of hours.” ~ Paul McClellan

“Thoughts become words. Words become actions. Actions become habits. Habits become character. Character becomes your destiny.” ~ Proverb

“If you don’t think too good, then don’t think too much.” ~ Ted Williams

If You Think You’re Beaten, You Are

If you think you are beaten, you are

If you think that you dare not, you don’t

If you’d like to win, but you think you can’t,

It’s almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost

For out in the world you’ll find

Success begins with a fellow’s will.

It’s all in the state of mind.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man;

But sooner or later the man who wins

Is the man who thinks he can.

~ Arnold Palmer, Golfer

“Every athlete hears two competing voices. One is a negative critic, and the other is a positive coach. Which voice we listen to is a matter of choice.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“What you are thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all.” ~ Willie Mays

“When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.” ~ Sun-Tzu

“Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. It would be an impoverished existence if you were not willing to value things and commit yourself to working toward them.” ~ Carol Dweck

“Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you’ll never really satisfy yourself that you’ve made it, and accept that thats okay.” ~ Robert B. Reich

“While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it’s a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control.” ~ Daniel Pink

You need not see what someone is doing

to know if it is his vocation,

you have only to watch his eyes:

a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon

making a primary incision,

a clerk completing a bill of lading,

wear the same rapt expression, forgetting

themselves in a function.

How beautiful it is,

that eye-on-the-object look.

~ W. H. Auden

“Were born to be players, not pawns.” ~ Daniel Pink

“Leaders can be wrong – but they can not be unclear.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.” ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” ~ Albert Einstein