Matthew Polly quotes

“It is only when a person gets into difficulty that one can truly see his heart.”
-- Matthew Polly

Source : Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.20, Penguin

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“A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.”
-- Matthew Polly

Source : Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.252, Penguin

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“The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldn’t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.”
-- Matthew Polly

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“Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win.  What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.”
-- Matthew Polly

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“A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.”
-- Matthew Polly

Source : Matthew Polly (2011). “Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon, and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martia l Arts”, p.203, Penguin

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“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.”

“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books

“I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.195, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

Source : "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

“Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.”

“There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.”

“I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.”

“Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.”

“At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.”