Lucy Liu Quotes

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

My time of martial arts was traditional.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.

I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

I went to karate for about four years, and I learned a lot about focus and listening very good.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people.

Karate is good for teaching you to do what you're supposed to do.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. If I'd say, "I'm going to study this many hours, then I'm going to go work out and wrestle," then when that time comes, you don't feel like you should be doing something else. That helped me psychologically. But otherwise? When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.

At the still point, there the dance is.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.