Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 11

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• Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

  Bruce Lee

  Play, Sparring, Turns

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• Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

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  Life, Pain, Fighting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.192, 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.

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  Humility, Moments, Flexibility

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

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  Judging, Martial Arts Inspirational, Judged

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• With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

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  Adversity, Blessing, Routine

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

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

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  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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

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

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  Morning, Writing, Blank Mind

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

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  Men, Self, Growth

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.89, 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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• 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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• Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

  Bruce Lee

  Inventory, Contact

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

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  Motivational Sports, Powerful, Greatness

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• Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

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  Art, Self

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• It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

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  Broken, Clay, Pieces

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