Itosu Anko Quotes & Sayings

When you train, you should train as if on the battlefield. Make your eyes glare, lower your shoulders and harden your body. If you train with the same intensity and spirit as though you are striking and blocking against an actual opponent, you will naturally develop the same attitude as on a battlefield — Anko Itosu

I wanted to escape, and to become the center of a universe of my own creation, instead of remaining on the margins or even becoming part of other people's universe. — Rhonda K. Garelick

Man sees what he knows, not what he sees

Short story, The Mallard — S.L. Northey

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. — Og Mandino

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ... — Angelina Grimke

With love, even the rocks will open. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I screwed the pooch with Kate - okay, you're right, where I pretty much fucked the whole kennel — Emma Chase

the heart knows nothing except its own mind — David Levithan

in time-out. That's how you're acting - like five-year-olds. It's time you realized that you are sixteen and way too old for this nonsense. And you — Holly Jacobs

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland

Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate. — Anko Itosu

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it. — Fede Alvarez

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. — Pappy Boyington

Hummingbirds can't walk. — Na