Tag: McClellan Conference Center

by Dave Madden
Posted on April 11, 2017

The Titans Cage 15: Preview — NorCal MMA

by Dave Madden
Posted on April 10, 2017April 10, 2017

Kyle Kolod Debuts at TTC 15 Versus Joshua Dim

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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”
-Jim Rohn-

“Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
-Buddha-

“If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”
-Jacques-Yves Cousteau-

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
-Thomas A. Edison-

“Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want.”
-Brian Tracy-

“The “mere-measurement effect” refers to the finding that when people are asked what they intend to do, they become more likely to act in accordance with their answers.”
-Thaler and Sunstein-

“Naming our fears isn’t about confessing guilt. When we linger a bit longer in the details of our uncertainty and doubt, we can see the opportunities that lie hidden beneath.”
-Lucy Calkins-

“I’ve always disliked rereading my writing. It feels good to write; why mar that feeling with a rereading?”
-Don Graves-

“The gi is a mystery; it chokes and pulls and twists around your body. It controls you: By controlling the gi, you control the man inside it.”
-Sam Sheridan-

“Something about stick-to-itiveness and persistence in the face of overwhelming odds was the lesson that he wanted to impart. Tenacity.”
-Art Davie-

“It often surprises kids to learn that writers, almost all writers, research something before they finish writing a piece.”
-Colleen Cruz-

“I’ve observed the sport’s grassroots movement firsthand, and I know MMA is not only going to survive; it’s going to flourish, expand, and become one of the biggest sport in the world.”
-“Big” John McCarthy-

“By sharing our solitude we come both to respect it and to create a door that allows us to leave and return to the essential lonliness from which so much writing comes.”
-Donald Murray-

“I believe it is through the arts that we escape. The artist selects for us what is significant, what we must pay attention to, what will order our world.”
-Donald Murray-

“The thing that kills me about education is that it’s so touchy-feely.”
-Michelle Rhee-

“There is an important “I” quality to work. It is who I am. In our society, we constantly ask people who they are, identifying-and classifying-them by their jobs.”
-Donald Murray-

“Sometimes I think human beings learn to harden like concrete.”
-Donald Murray-

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”
-Mason Cooley-

“Students will float to the mark you set.”
-Mike Rose-

“Without data, you are just another person with an opinion.”
-Amanda Ripley-