“Tai chi chuan (taìjíqúan) is a Taoist practice emphasizing cultivation of martial ethics.”
Wu Family T'ai Chi Ch'uan (1980)
Source: The championship period is short. What we show in the heroic era comes back to us in the veteran era. The real martial artist must first be a role model in ethics. https://parsine.com/0033gy Parsine News, (September 9, 2021)
“Tai chi chuan (taìjíqúan) is a Taoist practice emphasizing cultivation of martial ethics.”
Wu Family T'ai Chi Ch'uan (1980)
“A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.”
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a conversation with an older member of the temple.
Context: A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.
“Your problem is your role models were models.”
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Your problem is your role models were models.”
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
Source: Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies (1995), p. 1: Introduction
Source: 1940s-1950s, Models of Man, 1957, p. 198; Cited in P. Slovic (1972, p. 2).
“Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.”
"Selena Live" Interview (1993)
“The Age of Criticism”, p. 79
Poetry and the Age (1953)
"Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction" (1976)
Context: True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. “You must change your life,” he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.