17 Jan Elevate MMA Academy 2016 Quotes
Starting in May of 2016 a different quote was posted in the gym every two weeks. These quotes were meant to inspire and bring forth the best in all of us in each training session. Enjoy the collected wisdom below.
“Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.”
― Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaoa: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind”
― Nasem Taleb – Antifragile
“I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer, a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman, but a man who works with his hands, his brain, and his heart is an artist.”
― Louis Nizer –
“Being an important part of growth and progression of others teaches us collective development. It is the greatest feeling in Martial Arts. Because you were there your teammate excels, You become a direct addition to their development. Without this you only understand you and what you want or need. That is an inability to control ego. It is a reality that many never learn. It becomes like a location they never knew existed.”
― Dave Camarillo –
“Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most difficult subject can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him”
― Leo Tolstoy
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low Wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in event of success”
― Ernest Shackleton
“A dojo is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves – our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully. It is a place where we can learn a great deal in a short time about who we are and how we react in the world. The conflicts that take place inside the dojo help us handle conflicts that take place outside. The total concentration and discipline required to study martial arts carries over to daily life. The activity in the dojo calls on us to constantly attempt new things, so it is also a source of learning.”
-Joe Hyams
“If the opponent does not move, then I do not move.
At the opponents slightest move, I move first”
-Wu Yu Hsiang
“There is deeply embodied grit, which is born of love, purpose, truth to one’s core under ferocious heat, and a relentless passion for what can only be revealed on the razor’s edge; and there is the cool, patient, disciplined cultivation and study of resilience that can teach us all how to get there”
-Josh Waitzkin
“There’s always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don’t just dream.”
– Dan Gable
“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
– Victor Frankl
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with results.”
– General Patton
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.”
– Neil Gaiman