Quotes of: Martial-arts Keyword

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persu...

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

I don’t like the shrug. It’s an abdication of responsibility for making sure that art keeps doing the things that art should do. If you shrug, that keeps the wheels turning the way they’re turning. It lets corporations turn you into selfish con...

Questlove

Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are an artist. Your single greatest work of art is your self. As with any art form, the more you understand and develop...

Scott Edmund Miller

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two great classes: those arts, like sculpture, painting, acting, which...

Robert Louis Stevenson

The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didacti...

James Joyce

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China

Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatant...

Ivanhoe

This book is irrelevant to Goodreads because you can’t buy it on Amazon. Also it talks about oppression, censorship etc. and no one really likes reading about that because it’s boring. Yet, let me tell you anyway. The title of this book is The Im...

Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt

Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist; the science at the mind of scientist; and the bridge between the art and science.

Digital Master

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

El Arte de la Estrategia

Failure in and of itself is not a bad thing. But failing to learn from it is inexcusable.

On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead?

The French Art of Revenge

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

GAMAN The Japanese Art of Patience

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

The Art of War

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

The Art of War

Ah, spite, the stuff of fairy tales.

The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.

The Art of War

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

The Art of War

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

The Art of War