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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do -
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
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A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
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