Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.
Referring to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin:
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.
Words writ in waters.
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.
Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.
Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.
Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
When one has no form, one can be all forms.
The thing with Led Zeppelin songs is that they were never the same. They were very fluid and tight but loose.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
Everybody is as unstable as water.
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.
Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.
Yung Lean is like water: he's always changing due to the temperature, how he's feeling.
Business is many things, the least of which is the balance sheet. It is a fluid, ever changing, living thing, sometimes building to great peaks, sometimes falling to crumbled lumps.