Quotes About Tai Chi

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

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#2. 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

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

Terence Stamp

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Hal Sparks

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

Frederick Lenz

#11. 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

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

Liu Yang

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Cheng Man-ch'ing

#16. 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

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

Sarah Zettel

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Frederick Lenz

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Lou Reed

#27. 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

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

Josh Waitzkin

#29. Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

Kris Holden-Ried

#30. There is no love.
There's only love of men and women, love
Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
Divine love, human love, parental love,
Roughly discriminated for the rough.

Robert Frost

#31. I started then to try and shape something rather than just express it and when I started to shape something and to imitate other poems that were written by other people, when I had tried to integrate my reading and my writing I was on my path.

Edward Hirsch

#32. People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ... It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.

Duane Hanson

#33. For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

Paulo Coelho

#34. Stay positive , smile , and don't let the buggers get you down.

Jon Adkin

#35. Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

Roxane Gay

#36. It's never too late to be wise. Find someone who makes your feel like you're coming home.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#37. One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

#38. I'm ready. I feel like I can't be beat. You have to feel like that being a fighter. I just feel like this is a bigger type of energy. I feel like I've beaten so many odds. I feel kind of invincible. It's going to be a good fight.

Tavoris Cloud

#39. Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.

Katherine Paterson

#40. You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.

Matt Ryan

#41. To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs ...

Ken Kesey

#42. You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]

Miss Piggy

#43. History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Henry Steele Commager