When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.