Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 11

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• Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Enlightenment, Liberty

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

  Bruce Lee

  Adversity, Thinking, Prosperity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

  Bruce Lee

  Judging, Martial Arts Inspirational, Judged

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• If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

  Bruce Lee

  Understanding, Shadow, Routine

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

  Bruce Lee

  Play, Sparring, Turns

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• To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Expression

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• The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily.

  Bruce Lee

  Body, Abdominals, Action

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

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  Average, Law, Law Of Averages

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing

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• The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational Sports, Powerful, Greatness

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• Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

  Bruce Lee

  Defense, Causes, Results

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.91, Tuttle Publishing

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• Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Self

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• I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

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  Moving, Moon, Self

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Self, Type

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.224, Tuttle Publishing

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• How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Together

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• While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

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  Emotional, Giving, Profound

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• Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Mind, Quiet

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, pp. 15 - 16, 2000.

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• It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

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  Broken, Clay, Pieces

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• The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

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  Men, Mma, Moral

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.65, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

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  Life, Philosophical, Writing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moon

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.92, Tuttle Publishing

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

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  Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

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• All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Self Knowledge

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• Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Expression, Mma

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