Top 33 Chi Quotes

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

Tai Chi is not super masculine. It’s not super pushing and strong, but it’s has so much power in its movements. It’s so smooth and it’s so subtle.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty.

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t’ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

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.

I want the legacy of Chi Chi Devayne to be a damn good performer that came from nowhere and took the world by storm.

I did a Christmas tour and I sang on that and the response I got was people want to hear more of Chi Chi’s voice.

I love my body. And, I’m always working out. I’m an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t’ai chi or yoga.

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

Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.

I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

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.

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

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T’ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

People probably think I’m cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It’s not about my look.

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

I did not want to follow Chi Udayashankerji; now Yogaraj Bhat does not want to follow me in writing lyrics.

My mum lives in Boston; she’s famous for teaching wushu and t’ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: ‘You’re training; you’re not playing baseball or football.’ Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

I love Kim Chi the drag queen from ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ but I’m not sure about the food.

I don’t need no Tony Robbins. I don’t need no chi. I’ve got the blood of Jesus Christ flowing in my veins.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Chicago, we always had it. People just shied away because it’s nothing businesswise from the industry. Everybody from Chi will go to N.Y.C. or L.A. – R. Kelly to Kanye to even Twista. Everybody is great from there, but it’s nothing downtown.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

Not saying that we are realer than most people, but because Chi is so segregated, first of all, we have to be diverse comedians and be able to make a lot of different people laugh. And Chicago comics, we’re OK with who we are in our truth. That stems from Bernie Mac and a lot of other greats who came before me.

All the writers for ‘The Chi,’ they’re all phenomenal, so I’m just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.

People think that I work out but it’s all t’ai chi.

Performing tai chi in space – it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

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.

I meditate twice a day, T.M., and do yoga and tai chi.

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

Doing a show eight times a week is kind of like doing yoga or tai chi. A vinyasa is the same every single time you do it, but depending on how you’re feeling, it tells you a lot about what’s happening in your life.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

I am the world’s most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I’ve studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t’ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.