A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests.

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.

Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks, ' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

You can go from seeking to seeker when you stop bouncing. Set a plan for change and take the risks you need to take without worrying about failing.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.