“Not infrequently a marching soldier might be seen to halt, take his writing utensils from his belt, and compose an ode—and such papers were found afterward in the helmets or the breast-plates, when these were removed from their lifeless wearers.”
– Inazo Nitobe, Bushido
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“Some youthful enthusiasts of karate believe that it can be learned only from instructors in a dõjõ, but such men are mere technicians, not true karateka. There is a Buddhist saying that “any place can be a dõjõ.””
– Gichin Funakoshi, Karate-Dō: My Way of Life
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There’s never a wrong time to write.
There is never a wrong place to stop and think.
I can write where I stand (or slump on the sofa).
It’s all practice.
Sometimes the best stuff gets made when we are on the way to doing something else.
Conversations With Quotations 