Kung Fu Quotes

• I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ate, and I gained only 30 pounds.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Pregnancy, Yoga, Thinking

  "Life lessons from Gisele Bündchen" by Karen Hawthorne, nationalpost.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.

  Ian Hart

  Wall, Yoga, Taken

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Clever, Cheer Up, Kung Fu Panda

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Strength

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• Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

  Michelle Yeoh

  Inspirational, Life, Choices

  "Fictional character: Soothsayer". "Kung Fu Panda 2", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book VIII". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1678 - 1679.

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• Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Clever, Cheer Up

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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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• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thank You, Gratitude, Yoga

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Kung Fu Panda, Matter, Kung Fu Movie

  Arthur M. Jolly (2010). “A Gulag Mouse”, p.13, Next Stage Press

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• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Sports, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.

  Jackie Chan

  Art, People, Treats

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• A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Desire, Beginners

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• I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

  Channing Tatum

  Art, Athlete, Athletic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

  Werner Herzog

  Intellectual, Film, Counterfeit Money

  "Herzog on Herzog: Conversations with Paul Cronin". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

  Stephen Chow

  Trying, Relax, Way

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. April 6, 2005.

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• Kung fu was made so the monks could train their bodies and move their bodies with strength, so they could be physical enough to gain mental enlightenment. Before that, they kept falling asleep when [masters] were trying to teach them.

  RZA

  Moving, Fall, Enlightenment

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations...I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.

  Daniel Quinn

  Spiritual, Archery, Yellow

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• I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do before. We've been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Thinking, Order, Years

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• As many peo­ple have pointed out, the scene in ‘Kung Fu Hus­tle’ where the Land­lady was chas­ing after me resem­bled the Road­run­ner, … I loved to watch car­toons and read comic books when I was small. In fact, I still watch and read a lot of them now. They give me great ideas.

  Stephen Chow

  Running, Book, Land

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