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• Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Tools, Moments, Strikes

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, 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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• Boards don't hit back.

  Bruce Lee

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

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  Technique, Spontaneity, Combat

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moon

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.92, Tuttle Publishing

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• As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

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  Reality, Two, Oneness

  Bruce Lee (1987). “Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self Defense”, p.80, Black Belt Communications

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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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• All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

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  Mean, Goal, Denial

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

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• You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

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  Art, Overcoming, Opponents

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.27, Tuttle Publishing

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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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• 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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• What can you take from me which is not already yours?

  Bruce Lee

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 77), 1996.

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