Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 18

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• Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of
  indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is
  no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process,
  an ever-renewing process.

  Bruce Lee

  Dedication, Realization, Growing

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• Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

  Bruce Lee

  Experts, Done, Levels

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• When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

  Bruce Lee

  Moon, Thinking, Tasks

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• More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Hands, Two

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.64, Tuttle Publishing

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• I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Law, People

  "Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way".

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

  Bruce Lee

  Energy, Needs, Devotion

  "The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee". Book by John R. Little, p. 126, 1996.

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• Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Creating, Style

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.154, Tuttle Publishing

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• You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

  Bruce Lee

  Wind, Alive, Force

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Creativity, Men

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing

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• Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

  Bruce Lee

  Choices, Anxiety, Perception

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

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• Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Self, Realization

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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• Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

  Bruce Lee

  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.99, Tuttle Publishing

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• If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Eye, Elbows

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Mastery, Patterns

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

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• Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

  Bruce Lee

  Interesting, Style, Aikido

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• When you freely express, you are the total style.

  Bruce Lee

  Style

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.329, Tuttle Publishing

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• Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Philosophical, Judging

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• The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Opportunity, Expression

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• There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Guy, Lazy

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• If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

  Bruce Lee

  Artist, Martial Arts, Efficiency

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• Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Mean, Self

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

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• You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Thinking, Sky

  "Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview". Short, Talk-Show, 1994.

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• It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Noses, Care

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• Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

  Bruce Lee

  Knowing, Movement, Source

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.9, Tuttle Publishing

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• Efficiency is anything that scores.

  Bruce Lee

  Efficiency, Score

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

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