Quotes About Tai

#1. The Chinese used the symbol of tai chi, the undifferentiated reality - no separation, no left and right.

Frederick Lenz

#2. Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. I do yoga. I do tai chi. I do a lot to keep my body and my spirit together so I can work.

Marianne Faithfull

#4. The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

Shirley Maclaine

#5. The core power of tai chi begins with awareness. Our stance is the posture of infinity: not tense but relaxed and upright, expectant. From this nothingness, all things begin.

Jean Kwok

#6. Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

Liu Yang

#7. Men changed during wars or conflict, sometimes beyond recognition. Tai

Guy Gavriel Kay

#8. I'm like this yo-yo with a three-thousand-mile string." - Tai

Jennifer Baker

#9. Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Tai'shar Manetheren," he said softly. Nynaeve's mouth fell open, then curled into a tremulous smile. Sudden tears glistened in her eyes as she spun to face him, her face joyous. He smiled back at her, and there was nothing cold in his eyes. Elayne

Robert Jordan

#11. Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.
the Tai Chi instructor

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#12. If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

Hal Sparks

#13. I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

Daniel Wu

#14. The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.

Guo Guangchang

#15. What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.

Daniel Wu

#16. L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.

Chris Pine

#17. If there were a ritual dance of the androgyne, Tai chi as performed by this master could be that dance. It is neither a masculine dance nor a feminine dance. It has the strength and grace of both.

June Singer

#18. Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

Lou Reed

#19. I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

Terence Stamp

#20. Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion.
Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#21. The mai tai got its name when two Polynesian alcoholics got in a fight over some neckwear.

George Carlin

#22. When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Sarah Zettel

#23. Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Lou Reed

#24. Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

Keanu Reeves

#25. Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.

Chungliang Al Huang

#26. Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

Susan Jane Gilman

#27. The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

Frederick Lenz

#28. 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

#29. Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

Salman Rushdie

#30. If it wasn't the Tai Mora, who would we fight? Ourselves? The Dhai? The Dorinah? Always another face, always the same face.

Kameron Hurley

#31. A tai chi principle: If you don't want someone to run away from you, run away from them first. Become yin to make them become yang. I'm not sure why it works, but almost always they'll follow you like air filling a vacuum.

Rick Riordan

#32. I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Cheng Man-ch'ing

#34. Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

J. Cole

#35. She just wanted to go home. And not home to the farmhouse where all the ghosts lived, but home to Tai, and to an earlier time, when raising Eli was a no-brainer. Easy. As easy as raising an infant.

Jennifer Scott

#36. Can I drink more than one mai tai without taking on the aroma of an aroused butterly?

Tom Robbins

#37. If someone teaches you alignment and - I'm not a tai chi expert by any stretch - so interviewing me about tai chi is kind of the cart before the horse - but just from my point of view as a student, it's simply that Master Ren can show you the relationship of power, stance and form.

Lou Reed

#38. But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

Lou Reed

#39. Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you've got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.

Nolan Bushnell

#40. I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

Keanu Reeves

#41. I would have to break the ice with a warm smile that would melt her heart.

Tai

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

Josh Waitzkin

#43. This in the context of turning the mind away from samsara, but this doesn't mean against samsara, it is for samsara. Because, what would be the best thing for all sentient beings in samsara? The best thing would be to have a Buddha to guide one, and each one of us wishes to be that Buddha. In

Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

#44. Enjoy breathing. Feel your breath. Watch your breath. Become your breath.

Tai Sheridan

#45. Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.

Tai

#46. She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach's Air on the G string.

Tai

#47. Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall points: kids got Reese's, teens got recess, adults got recessions, and seniors got receding.

Tai

#48. Don't waste your life living out other people's expectations.

Tai Sheridan

#49. We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#50. Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

Tai

#51. This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons.

Tai

#52. Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post - for physical support only.

Tai Solarin

#53. In Poetry class, Professor Sappho teaches us how to compose love ballads. She's a swell teacher and all but I'm not sure I understand her. She's always going on and on about her weekend trips with the other goddesses to the island of Lesbos.

Tai

#54. Beauty that isn't felt isn't beauty

Er Tai Gao

#55. Never wear a shoe that doesn't fits you.

Tai

#56. Give Thoughts Room Your thoughts are just your thoughts. They are not your life. They are your thoughts. Make a room as big as the sky in your mind. Your thoughts can be clouds that float through.

Tai Sheridan

#57. The mistakes we make everyday is to remind us that we are human.

Tai Jamison