16 Quotes by Joe Hyams

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Anger doesn’t demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

When a problem arises, don’t fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a solution or opening, and then fully commit yourself to the resolution you think advisable.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

The mind is like a fertile garden,” Bruce said. “It will grow anything you wish to plant – beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself – on the mat as well as in life.