Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 6

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• In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

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  Clay, Building, Creation

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• Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

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  Giving, Effort, Desire

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.295, Tuttle Publishing

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• Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

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  Mma, Differences, Inconvenience

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.221, Tuttle Publishing

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• Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Flow, Moments, Openness

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 13, 2000.

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• The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

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  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

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  Inspiring, Teacher, Art

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.16, Tuttle Publishing

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• Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

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  Flow, Becoming, Moments

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

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• To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love.

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  Believe, Reality, Men

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• Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

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  Going The Extra Mile, Habit, Miles

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

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• When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

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  Stars, Moon, Compassion

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• Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

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  Believe, Men, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.371, Tuttle Publishing

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• There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable target.

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  Self, Principles, Defense

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• We do not become. We simply are.

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  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing

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• The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.

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  Struggle, Differences, Perfect

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.207, Tuttle Publishing

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• Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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  Art, Empty Mind, Water

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

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  Way, Limitation

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.24, Tuttle Publishing

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• There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

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  Men, Levels, Sith

  "The Art of Expressing the Human Body". Book edited by John R. Little, p. 23, 1998.

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• Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

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  Flexible

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

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• Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

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  Art, Expression, Athletic

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• To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

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  Real, Quality, Term

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.227, Tuttle Publishing

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• The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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  Mind, Possession

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.371, Tuttle Publishing

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• Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Teacher

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• As you think, so shall you become.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 120), 2000.

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• I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

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  Life Is, Self Knowledge, Martial Arts Inspirational

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

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• Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

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  Dreamer, Action, Practicals

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.73, Tuttle Publishing

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