Ed Parker Quotes

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

Ed Parker

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Acting

• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Ski
  • Descending
  • Himalayas

• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Crazy
  • About
  • Jewelry

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Important
  • Light

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Someone

• Small aim is a crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Small
  • Crime
  • Aim

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Reporter
  • Marketers

• You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Story

• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • War
  • Peace
  • Helping

• You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Knows

• If you broke down my technique, it wouldn't really take a rocket scientist to do so.

  

  John Cena

• One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Reality

• The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Art
  • True
  • Artist