Top 150 Chi Quotes & Sayings

Shrimp crackers are actually exactly what I was eating when I got the call that I was going to play Shang-Chi.

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

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.

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

Shang-Chi can definitely throw a punch.

I'm Chi Chi, and everybody knows when I get on stage, it's magical.

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

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.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

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.

With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.

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

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.

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

None of Ho Chi Minh's colleagues was as dedicated to the use of political struggle, psychological warfare, and diplomatic means as he was.

If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.

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.

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.

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

Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities.

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

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.

The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

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

On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.

Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and in directing my energies more efficiently. All of those things were heavily influenced by my Sigma Chi experience. There is no question that that has had a tremendous impact on my career, profesionally and on my life.

The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.

I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.

From the physical aspect of things, I really enjoy Tai Chi.

Age ain't nothing but a number, that's what Chi-Ali said. OK, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?

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

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

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

It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

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

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

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

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

If I just track Shang-Chi's journey in the context of table tennis in my life, it actually fits perfectly, and that's why I was able to sink into the character so, so seamlessly.

Chi is developed through meditation, through studying with one who has a great deal of it.

Use the mind to direct the chi and the chi to mobilise the body.

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

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

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

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of my apartment and my truck when I'm here, but when I get back in the USA I miss the craziness of Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok.

Like 'Sex and the City' - if you're a New Yorker, you knew half the places they were going to. I want 'The Chi' to feel that way as well.

He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

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

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

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.

Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.

Why Ho Chi Minh City? It is crowded, noisy, scruffy, crazy, but always interesting and things are happening all at a break neck speed.

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

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.