Shoshin Quotes & Sayings

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior. — Shoshin Nagamine

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning. — Courtney Barnett

Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country. — Barack Obama

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well. — Samuel Johnson

I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying. — Katie Findlay

In Japan, there is the phrase 'shoshin', which translates to 'beginner's mind'. Maintaining a beginner's mind is the goal of practicing. — Bob Smith

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is. — Aimee Liu

You have what we in France call 'good time teeth,'" she said. "Why on earth would you want to change them?" "Um, because I can floss with the sash to my bathrobe? — David Sedaris

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally ... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past. — Al Gore

As he now went up the weary and perpetual steps, he was daunted and bewildered by their almost infinite series. But it was not the hot horror of a dream or of anything that might be exaggeration or delusion. Their infinity was more like the empty infinity of arithmetic, something unthinkable, yet necessary to thought. Or it was like the stunning statements of astronomy about the distance of the fixed stars. He was ascending the house of reason, a thing more hideous than unreason itself. — Anonymous

The only thing mothers have in common with each other is the fact that they slept with a man while they were ovulating without the appropriate protection — Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement. — Shoshin Nagamine

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. — Oscar Wilde

Sometimes what looks like generosity can be control.You think you're being swept up in this big romance, but really it's all about separating you from your own life. — Lilah Pace

Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts. — Shoshin Nagamine

Don't think about waht other's think of you. Matter of fact don't think at all,just be you. Do what you feel. No one else matters. — Emma Michelle