Friendship Blooms Quotes & Sayings

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning. — Charlie Munger

I have been given the rare opportunity to teach Jiu Jitsu for a living. This is a privilege that I wake up everyday grateful for, and a responsibility that I hold dearly. I understand how rare it is to be employed through a labor you genuinely love, and one which can be used as a vehicle for positive change in the lives of others. Even rarer still, I am often reminded of the quality of Jiu Jitsu I have learned, and the opportunity to have learned it. — Chris Matakas

If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights ... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for. — Nelson Shanks

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today. — Bob Harper

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? — Emily Bronte

Nabokov, Heinrich von Kleist, Raymond Carver, Jane Bowles, James Baldwin, Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant - the list goes on and on. They are the teachers to whom I go, the authorities I consult, the models that still help to inspire me with the energy and courage it takes to sit down at a desk each day and resume the process of learning, anew, to write. — Francine Prose

I never thought we'd get this far. I guess what drives us is the fact that we weren't satisfied with the answers that we've been given since birth. It's not just black and white, like they'd have us believe. There's always a gray area. We're going to be the ones to dance all in that gray area." - Chad Miller, Greenville Herald Banner Interview — C. Derick Miller

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn. — Vincent Van Gogh