Quotes About Chuan

#1. There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.

Ma Yueliang

#2. Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

Cheng Man-ch'ing

#3. He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Paulo Coelho

#4. The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

Cheng Man-ch'ing

#5. The balancing act we parents attempt is convincing our children: 1. You are loved more than you can imagine. 2. The world does not revolve around you.

John Eldredge

#6. No one has yet tested the pencil
To see how many words it can write

Xi Chuan

#7. What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

Barry Larkin

#8. Night is the sleep of seven wax moths
Dawn is the singing of five mermaids
Noon is the scratching of three field mice
Dusk is the shadow of a crow

Xi Chuan

#9. She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Jane Austen

#10. The lofty bookshelves sag
Under thousands of sleeping souls
Silence, hopeful -
Every time I open a book, a soul is awakened.

Xi Chuan

#11. If I breathe, what will my heart think?
If I vomit, what will my soul think?

Xi Chuan

#12. Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

Joseph Addison

#13. I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Jackson Pollock

#14. To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

Roderick Haig-Brown

#15. He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

Josh Waitzkin

#16. The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.

Rosie Thomas