“ Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincer… Chris Matakas
“ If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Jiu Jitsu does not leave you viewing strangers in a kinder light, you are missing… Chris Matakas
“ Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to cons… Chris Matakas
“ We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of… Chris Matakas
“ Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibil… Chris Matakas
“ It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ There is no more valuable skill than studentship. The farther we go down one area of human understanding, the more we see the corollaries that all activities share. Everything I do for the rest of my… Chris Matakas
“ To become a better you, keep doing what you have been doing right and learn to correct what you have been doing wrongly. Israelmore Ayivor
“ If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first. Jon Osborne
“ I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain. Louis Chunovic
“ All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized… Megan McCafferty
“ If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information and not creators of new ideas, what hope… Paul Lockhart
“ Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often found myself intrigued by the behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and general schemata of others,… Gina Marinello-Sweeney
