Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 11

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

  Bruce Lee

  Judging, Martial Arts Inspirational, Judged

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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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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

  Bruce Lee

  Relationship, Motivation, Acting

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

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• Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

  Bruce Lee

  Humility, Moments, Flexibility

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• A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

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  Army, Men, Bones

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• A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

  Bruce Lee

  Men, Self, Growth

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.89, Tuttle Publishing

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• Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.

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  Opposites, Void, Realizing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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• Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

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  Power, Endurance, Speed

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• Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

  Bruce Lee

  Morning, Writing, Blank Mind

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

  Bruce Lee

  Way, Limitation

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

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• A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

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  Pride, Men, Worry

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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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• When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

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  Confidence, Self Esteem, People

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

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  Humility, Honor, Foundation

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing

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• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

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  Mean, Power, Important

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.119, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

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  Body, Abdominals, Action

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

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• Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

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  Inventory, Contact

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

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• You need emotional content.

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  Emotional, Needs

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• Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.

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  Moving, Mean, Views

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

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

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  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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• There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

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  Passion, Doe, Form

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

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  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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• I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

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  Two, Numbers, Realizing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.54, Tuttle Publishing

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