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“When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.”

Mind Fighting Waiting Unique Expectations Empty Waiting For Something

Author:Rickson Gracie

“When I fight I try to empty my mind... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.”

Trying Mind Matter Moments Fighting Empty That Moment Mma

Author:Lyoto Machida

“Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.”

Mind Bigs Able Fighting Loses Accepting Empty Calm Fighter Mma Big Things

Author:Lyoto Machida

“We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.”

Fighting Streets Fields Empty Wide Surrender Parking Parking Lot Never Surrender

Author:Winston Churchill

“Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.”

Feels Fighting Lost Hours Months Empty Gym

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.”

Happens Fighting Space Birth Healthy Letting Go Empty Praise Meetings Encounters Emptiness Mysticism Nothingness Expanding Penetrate Pouring

Author:Matthew Fox

“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.”

Should Long Life Is Fighting Heaven Hell Waste Empty Eternity Blind Painful Foolish Horrible Vain Excitement Bubbles Worldly Too Short Numb Life Is Too Short Porch

Author:John Piper

“To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.”

Dream Fighting Imagine Military Empty Deeds Imagine That Great Military

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.”

“Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.”

Ideas Body Fighting Water Realizing Son Empty Good Ideas Charging Poseidon Bodies Of Water

Author:Rick Riordan

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“Just by being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence. So those three words you have to remember: relaxation, thoughtlessness, silence. And if these three words are no more words to you but become experiences, your life will be transformed.”

Ifs Needs Mind Enough Remember Fighting Three Silence Awareness Ready Empty Disappear Temples Transformed Relaxation Three Words Thoughtlessness

Author:Rajneesh

“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Two War Home Seems Purpose Fighting Practice Willing Mouths Empty Thirds Reputation Immortal Bubbles Get Over Fence Grandeur Loaded Cannons Napoleonic

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“Meditation plays a big role in my life. Meditation fortifies my spirit, improves my focus, my desire. When I fight I try to empty my mind. It's called Mushin. When I don't see anything around me, I only see that moment. Nothing else matters. that was how I was taught to live.”

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Author:Lyoto Machida

“I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.”

Way I Can Care Fall Fighting Hours Five Drink Six Empty Don't Care Bars Planes I Don't Care Boards Chairs Bloody Airports Not Alone Passengers Booze Muster

Author:Bob Newhart