Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 14

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• Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Over You, Self Evaluation

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

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

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  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

  Bruce Lee

  Support, Training, Technique

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

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• Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

  Bruce Lee

  Reality, Views, Twisted

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Overcoming, Opponents

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.27, Tuttle Publishing

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• To see is to be decieved. To hear is to be lied to. To FEEL is to believe.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Lied, Feels

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• It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Trying, Useless

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.97, Tuttle Publishing

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• Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Philosophical, Self

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

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• Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Ideas, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

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  Dream, Positivity, Power

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

  Bruce Lee

  Powerful, Learning, Knowing

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

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• Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

  Bruce Lee

  Giving Up, Thinking, Technique

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.78, Tuttle Publishing

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• I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

  Bruce Lee

  Wisdom, Believe, Students

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• In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

  Bruce Lee

  Technique, Spontaneity, Combat

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• The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

  Bruce Lee

  Ambition, Men, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.129, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Thinking

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

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• Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

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  Inspirational, Life, Borders

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.184, Tuttle Publishing

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• The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

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  Soul, Unfolding, Interest

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.239, Tuttle Publishing

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• Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

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  Real, Men, Doe

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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• The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Mind, Stopping

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• I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Practice, Not Afraid, Kicks

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• The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

  Bruce Lee

  Patience, Past, Practice

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• Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Powerful

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

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• Willing is not enough, one must apply.

  Bruce Lee

  Enough, Willing

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• Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

  Bruce Lee

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