Thank You Preceptor Quotes & Sayings

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife. — Saadi

Relativity is a beautiful, irrifutable truth. We must acknowledge that wearing a black belt in jiu jitsu does not make you a black belt in life. In the home, there are black belts who are white belt fathers, and there are white belts who are black belt fathers. This holds true for all areas of life. A black belt does not mean you are successful in life. It does mean that you have mastered this art to an enormous degree, and that the skills you have acquired can be transmuted to a plethora of other activities. It does not mean, however, that you have done this. — Chris Matakas

I didn't have anything really exiting to drink, like nitroglycerin or distilled tiger breath. — Raymond Chandler

Couples who regularly practice empathy see stunning results. It is the independent variable that predicts a successful marriage, according to behaviorist John Gottman, who, post hoc criticisms notwithstanding, forecasts divorce probabilities with accuracy rates approaching 90 percent. In Gottman's studies, if the wife felt she was being heard by her husband - to the point that he accepted her good influence on his behavior - the marriage was essentially divorce-proof. (Interestingly, whether the husband felt heard was not a factor in divorce rates.) If that empathy trafficking was absent, the marriage foundered. Research — John Medina

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to. — Michel Faber

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness. — Jonathan Edwards

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity. — Tom Robbins

The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather. — Peter De Savary

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. — Paulo Coelho

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind. — Swami Vivekananda

What use is a good book ... if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another? — Manu Herbstein