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Miyamoto Musashi Quotes
Death: | June 13, 1645 |
Total quotes: 61
Miyamoto Musashi
BirthnameDeath: June 13, 1645
Total quotes: 61
“If you get to feeling you are snarled up and are making no progress, you toss your mood away and think in your heart that you are starting everything anew.”
Tagged:
Opposites
“Thus the science of martial arts involves the presence of mind to act as the sea when the enemy is like a mountain and act as a mountain when the enemy is like the sea.”
Tagged:
Opposites
“Be aware of opponents' sword,
Yet not look at the opponents' swords at all.
This takes work.”
Yet not look at the opponents' swords at all.
This takes work.”
Tagged:
Impressions
“It is essential to make your ordinary bearing–the bearing you use in martial arts. And make the bearing you use in martial arts your ordinary bearing.”
Tagged:
Vision
“Become your opponent... Consider a burglar in a house. You see him as powerful, he sees himself as trapped hopelessly.”
Tagged:
Vision
“Think of your adversaries as your own soldiers, understanding that you should do with them as you wish, intending to manipulate them freely. You are the commander, the opponents are the troops. This takes work.”
Tagged:
Emptiness
“[With] my life on the line...little sissy things never even occurred to me...When one is in full combat gear, one does not think of the small things.”
Tagged:
Emptiness
“When you think you are going to get into a deadlock, you stop right away and seize victory by taking advantage of a different approach.”
Tagged:
Opposites
“Can hardly become a master at martial arts unless you can see the immediate in a broad context.”
Tagged:
Vision
“When you take up a sword, you must feel intent on cutting the enemy.”
Tagged:
Winning, Determination
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