Katas Quotes & Sayings

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. — Dean Koontz

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles. — Andy Kindler

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids. — David Broder

My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that. — Michael Hersch

If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it. — Toba Beta

To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral. — Katherine Mansfield

He felt as though he had swelled up to the size of a giant. The love in him made his chest a dynamo, and he wanted to shout so that his voice could be heard throughout the town. He wanted to fall upon the floor and call out in a giant voice. — Carson McCullers

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know. — Rita Mae Brown

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better. — Jane Bowles

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas. — Lilith Saintcrow

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts. — Tamim Ansary

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life. — Gichin Funakoshi

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him. — Jonathan Swift

Don't forgive your enemies for their sake - do it for your sake. — Bill Bartmann

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else. — Jim Brown

I'll learn all the katas and be the ninjing-est ninja that ever ninjed." Bubbles whined, so I bent down to rub his silky little head. "Is it the c-word, Bubbs? Don't you worry, we love the doggas as well as the katas." David laughed. — J.L. Merrow

Men, and governments, must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. — John Stuart Mill