Very nice quote!

I read this today at twitter, i think it is a very nice quote:



"You know, the five reasons the Go Bible tells us we play go never mention winning."

"The ax's handle rots while the mind lives to the rhythm of the stones."
Audouard, Pierre


Found here: http://gobase.org/reading/proverbs/

"Go uses the most elemental materials and concepts -- line and 
circle, wood and stone, black and white -- combining them with 
simple rules to generate subtle strategies and complex tactics that 
stagger the imagination." 


Iwamoto Kaoru, 9-dan professional Go player and former Honinbo title holder


Found here: http://senseis.xmp.net/GreatQuotes

Ask yourself: "Why did i win?"

"You have to like to win, and to learn to recognize the errors that gave you the victory."

Audouard, Pierre LINK

The Attempt

"Do nothing which is of no use."

Miyamoto Musashi

NO FIXED PLANS

"A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.
A good scientist has freed himself of concepts
and keeps his mind open to what is.

Thus the Master is available to all people
and doesn't reject anyone.
He is ready to use all situations
and doesn't waste anything.
This is called embodying the light."

老子 Lǎozǐ; Tao Te Ching

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THE POPCORN GAME


THE WASTE LAND GAME

(Me = TaoTeaKing)

Fighting Spirit Is Important In Go!

Maybe following quotes can give us some insight ... FIGHTING - SPIRIT - INSIGHT ;-)

Enjoy!

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“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”

Miyamoto Musashi

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“Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”

Miyamoto Musashi

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“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”

Miyamoto Musashi

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"The weekest things in the world can overmatch the stongest things in the world.

Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and the strong nothing proves better than it. For there is no alternative to it.

The weak can overcome the strong and the yielding can overcome the hard.

This all the world knows but does not practice."

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu

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"Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now put water into a cup, it becomes a cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, it becomes a teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend."

Bruce Lee

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"Go is a game of chance where the strong player is he who renders circumstances favorable with tricks."

Audouard, Pierre

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"He who chases around after many rabbits ends hungry."

Okinawan Proverb

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"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them."

Albert Einstein

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"Fall down seven times, get up eight."

Japanese Proverb

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"Rule number one: Don't let them scare you."

Unknown

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"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

Yoda

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"Five Secrets of Japanese Goju Ryu:

Move quickly
Sound, calm mind
Be light in body
Have a clever mind
Master the basics"

Gogen Yamaguchi

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“Do nothing which is of no use.”

Miyamoto Musashi

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Easter Tsumego

White to play and win the capturing race.  

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"To do or not to do something is not determined by what is done in general, any more than by what is necessary. Doing or not doing something is determined by what you want, and to want in go is to want to win." 

Audouard, Pierre

Go Proverb

"You can hide nothing on the goban."
Audouard, Pierre