Joe Hyams Quotes

• Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

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  Things In Life, One Day, Important

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.23, Bantam

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• A dojo [pracice hall] 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.

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  Anxiety, Cosmos, Dojo

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.4, Bantam

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• When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Trying

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.50, Bantam

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• To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

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  Mind, Relax, Target

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• Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

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  Practice, Effort, Conscious

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• Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

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  Able, Exposing

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.32, Bantam

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• When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

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  Motivational, Eye, Way

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.87, Bantam

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• One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

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  Basketball, Powerful, Exercise

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.107, Bantam

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• When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

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  Losing Yourself, Temper, Wells

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.70, Bantam

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• Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

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  Spiritual, Art, Years

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam

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• Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

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  Anger, Self, Demand

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.70, Bantam

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• What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

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  Caring, Effort, Way

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.99, Bantam

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