Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 14

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• Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

  Bruce Lee

  Style, Conformity

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• Boards don't hit back.

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  Boards, Martial Arts

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.38, 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.

  Bruce Lee

  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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• Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

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  Pain, Fighting, Pride

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

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• The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

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  Patience, Past, Practice

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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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• I create opportunities.

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  Opportunity, Mma

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• Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

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  Needs, Tools, Succeed

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 121, 2000.

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• In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

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  Technique, Spontaneity, Combat

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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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• Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

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  Self, Support, Environmental

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

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• To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

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  Responsibility, Action, Taking Responsibility

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• One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

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  Thinking, Mma, Progress

  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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• The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

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  Powerful, Fire, Brilliant

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

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• To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

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  Motivational, Mind, Bears

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

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• Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

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  Chance, Hell, Circumstances

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.255, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

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  Water, Trying, Useless

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.97, Tuttle Publishing

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• A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

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  Moving, Artist, Quality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.22, Tuttle Publishing

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• A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.

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  Strong, Powerful, Athlete

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• The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.

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  Mean, Successful, Men

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• Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

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  Art, Winning, Mind

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

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• Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

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  Art, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Powerful

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

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• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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  Life, Motivational, Memories

  "Fictional character: Bruce Lee". "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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