“The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is to build endurance, toughness, and courage. They want to practice as realistically as possible so that when they go into a real fight, the transition isn't as jarring.” WantTwoImportantRealHardReasonFightingPracticeTechniqueFighterEnduranceTransitionToughnessSparring Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each technique and movement has its own meaning. The karateka must consider their meaning, how and why they are effective, and practise accordingly” ShouldArtFightingPracticeMovementExerciseTechniquePerformingConsiderationMartial ArtsEffectivenessKaratePractiseHidden Meaning Author:Shigeru Egami
“Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.” ThinkingWellsSeemsFightingTermPracticeGenderGender EqualityNorwayForward ThinkingConstantly Thinking Author:Jenny Hval
“It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.” MindRealFightingPracticeBuddhismBalanceVictoryBattleGainsDefeatVictory And DefeatReal Victory Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.” FightingIndividualJusticePracticeBureaucracy Author:Leon Trotsky
“Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.” FightingPracticeFootballOughtExerciseLowsAimNobleBoatBoxingPrizeFollowersJudgedAthleticDishonestyStand Alone Author:John Boyle O'Reilly
“I'm just going to be honest with you. It's hard to go out there and fight for 60 minutes when you're fighting throughout the week to make it through one practice. I'm not the only one. I'm just the only one that's man enough to stand up here and talk to y'all. It's obviously, in my opinion, an issue in our starts.” MenHardEnoughFunnyFightingOpinionPracticeIssuesWeekMinutesHonestBeing HonestNfl Author:Cary Williams
“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.” KindDifferentBigsMovingPoliticalFightingCan DoCommonCitiesCompanyPracticeStruggleExampleTelevisionBuildingAreasStrategyCommon SenseSquaresConventionalCablesMosaicsPolitical StruggleCheckerboard Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.” TogetherFightingPracticeThreatInjusticePhysicians Author:Samuel Wilson
“If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best practices, whether it's about fighting poverty, whether it's about educating kids. The states are the laboratories where we can see what works. And I think presidents can have a much better relationship with legislatures.” IfsThinkingWantStatesKidsFightingPresidentPovertyPracticeLaboratoryLegislatureBest Practices Author:John Kasich
“I go to practice every day. I really don't have a training camp. In the boxing world, and that's where that came from, almost every time a guy would get out of the ring and he wouldn't break a sweat again until he went to his next training camp. He would do absolutely nothing until he started training for the next fight.” WorldGuyFightingNextBreakPracticeTrainingRingsBoxingCampsSweatAbsolutely NothingTraining Camp Author:Chael Sonnen
“I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.” IfsDifferentAbleFightingBeliefChurchPracticeTemplesMosquesDifferent Beliefs Author:Otis Moss III
“I usually practice on a small, low wire, that features the predominant wind. I study the meteorology of the place at the time that I am supposed to do my walk, and then I find the predominant direction and velocity of the wind and I train to fight that wind.” FightingWalksPracticeStudyWindLowsTrainFeaturesWireVelocityMeteorology Author:Philippe Petit
“Everyone is a Taoist at heart. Everyone would like to follow nature, but we don't have enough tools yet to put the philosophy into practice... as soon as someone gets sick, they fight the illness, rather than trying to find out the meaning or purpose behind it.” TryingHeartEnoughPhilosophyPurposeFightingBehindsPracticeToolsSickIllness Author:Arnold Mindell
“Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones.” ShouldFightingPracticeCompetitionDestructiveAvoidedScrapOverrated Author:Peter Thiel