“Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.”

“I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

“Being mean makes you stupid. That's why I hate fights. You never do your best work in a fight, because fights are not sufficiently general. Winning is always a function of the situation and the people involved. You don't win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. And yet fighting is just as much work as thinking about real problems.”

Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

“The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will…”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

“Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.”

John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician

“You've got your whole life to do something,
And that's not very long.
So why don't you give me a call
When you're willing to fight
For what you think is real,
For what you think is right.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”

Bodhidharma (483–540) Chinese philosopher and Buddhist Monk

“The biggest problem is the moment you say "spirituality," somebody starts talking about God, someone else about mukti, someone else about nirvana and someone else about the Ultimate. They are all already up there. You cannot do anything with people who are already up there. If somebody is down here, you can do something with them. You can only take a step if your feet are on the ground, isn't it? The moment you talk about God, you are not here anymore; you know it all. You can only start a journey from where you are. You cannot start a journey from where you are not. If you are willing to come down to where you are, then we can see what the next step is. If you are already on the third step to heaven, what can I do with you?”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

“This is what happens when you get old. You start thinking. Worse, you start telling everybody what you think.”

Glen Cook book Soldiers Live