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"It will take your entire life to learn Karate"...
I think everyone agrees that it takes a life time to learn anything of importance not just Karate.
Rosalyn S. Yalow was quoted as saying that..."The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old".
Everyone who takes up Karate wants to be a Black Belt...
...and it's true that there are Black Belts and then there are "Black Belts".
Newton D. Baker said, "The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after".
I will leave you with 2 of my favorite quotes on life long learning...
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave".--Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon)
"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy".--Orison Swett Marden
