Quotes About Adaptation

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

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.