As I journey towards mastery, I find myself looking to masters of every art. Every field has its great masters, past and present. If I can tap into their mindset, then I may grow within my own. Certainly, I look to many role models within the martial arts, but as Funakoshi-sensei himself once wrote, "When you look at life, think in terms of karate, but remember that karate is not only karate - it is life."
With this in mind, I will occasionally bring you a few words of wisdom from a handful of the world's great masters and pepper your e-mail boxes with their thoughts:
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do."-Napoleon Hill, American author (early producer of personal success literature)"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of the broad view gained by our mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up."-Albert Einstein, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921
"All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Woodworth would be vain if, at the same time, you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions."-Mahatma Gandhi, internationally esteemed Indian philosopher
How interesting. An author, a physicist, and a political activist understood the arts without ever setting foot in a dojo. We would be wise to study them.
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