If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

Boards don't hit back.

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.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.