Quotes About Balance

Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

All things are delicately interconnected.

Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.