Quotes from Joe Hyams

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.

The mind is like a fertile garden," Bruce said. "It will grow anything you wish to plant—beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

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

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness? —BHAGAVAD GITA

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.

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

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

When an untoward event occurs in your life, react to it without haste or passion.

The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. —JIM LAU

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.

And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death. Vanity is the only obstacle to life.