My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.
It’s not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.
The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done.
Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn.
I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That’s why I’m a martial artist. For me, it’s more than a job – it’s a way of living.
For me, personally, when I’m afraid of something – when you’re afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.
I’m the kind of guy who only makes a mistake once, never twice.
One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It’s important to remember the past, but that doesn’t mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.
Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.
My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to work on their technique every day to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.
What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.
It’s OK to get butterflies in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is “Fall down 7 times, stand up 8”.
Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.
A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
I’m not impressed by your performance.