Archery Quotes

• So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.

  Maurice Thompson

  Beautiful, Heart, Moon

  Maurice Thompson (1928). “The witchery of archery”, p.8, Рипол Классик

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• Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

  Fred Bear

  Hunting, Mind, Shooting

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• Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Archer, Feet

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• The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

  Fred Bear

  Arrows, Bows, Mankind

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• In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

  Confucius

  Archer, Character, Men

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

  'Elegiac Verse' (1880)

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• There is no excellence in archery without great labour.

  Maurice Thompson

  Excellence, Labour

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• You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

  Stephen Amell

  Hunting, Arrows, Relax

  "Stephen Amell Talks ARROW, How He Won the Role, the Evolution of the Queen Family Dynamic, Appearances by Other DC Characters, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

  Fred Bear

  Hunting, Soul, Hunters

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• In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Reality, Two, Cases

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Archer, Crafts, Surprise

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Arrows

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Archer, Thinking, Arrows

  "Best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.

  John Flanagan

  Said

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• Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

  Geena Davis

  Aptitude, Natural, Knows

  "Team A-list: Celebs who could have been in the Olympics (no seriously, they could)" by Kate Wills, www.mirror.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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• The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

  Geena Davis

  Perfect, Battle, Technique

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Doe

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Country, Art, Archer

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• Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis

  Herodotus

  Business, Fall, Men

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• But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.

  Maurice Thompson

  Archer, Long, Training

  Maurice Thompson “The Witchery of Archery”, Lulu.com

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• If asked to sketch a picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes, sizes, colors and backgrounds. Inwardly they seem to have in common a love for the outdoors, a reverence for wildlife, and a close tie with history. There is nothing they seem to enjoy more than telling tall tales around a campfire or talking about archery to others. It would be difficult to find a more interesting group of people.

  Fred Bear

  Archer, Color, Talking

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• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Running, Yoga, Rocks

  "Ennifer Lawrence On 'Hunger Games,' 'Transformers' Announces World Premiere In Today's Dailies" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 23, 2011.

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• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Art, Arrows, Goal

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• I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot.

  John Barrowman

  School, Class, Two

  "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.

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