Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 13

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• To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

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  Memories, Lying, Mind

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

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• Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

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  Mirrors, Self, Existential

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• You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.

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  Water, Cups

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• An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

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  Students, Advantage, Should

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.296, Tuttle Publishing

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• Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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  Art, Reflection, Soul

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

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• Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

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  Focus, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

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  Art, Responsibility, Accepting

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Willing is not enough, one must apply.

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  Enough, Willing

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• Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

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  Self, Expression, Mma

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• To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

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  Art, Style, Genius

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

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  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

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  Running, Simplicity, Design

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

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  Trouble, Easily Offended, Offended

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.375, Tuttle Publishing

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• In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Lying

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.161, Tuttle Publishing

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• The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

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  Art, Vision, World

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

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• There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.

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  Strong, Powerful, Responsibility

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.240, Tuttle Publishing

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• Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

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  Dream, Positivity, Power

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

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  Art, Lying, Expression

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• Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

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  Art, Essence, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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• Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

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  Powerful, Learning, Knowing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

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• I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

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  Believe, Don't Believe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

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  Style, Conformity

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• Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

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  Giving Up, Thinking, Technique

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.78, Tuttle Publishing

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• Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

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  Men, Ideas, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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  Life, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 3, 2000.

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