A Quote by Yip Man

Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact

Yip Man

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Contact Escort Greet Leaves Loss Rush

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Yip Man
Chinese - Martial Artist
October 6, 1893 - December 2, 1972

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

Eckhart Tolle

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Robert Lembke

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

Joseph Stalin

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Franz Grillparzer

California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.

Christopher Isherwood

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

Leonardo da Vinci

The Brits are escorting their ships, and we will escort our ships, and I assume other countries will escort their ships.

Mark Esper

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.

Sun Tzu

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

Georg Solti

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Erich Fromm

I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we’re not here.” Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. “Stay real quiet. Don’t make eye contact.” They all nodded.

Lora Leigh

Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008.

Mark Carney

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

Haruki Murakami

There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach.

Meghan O'Rourke

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.