Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 15

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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!

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Winning, Mind

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

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• All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Expression, Deception

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

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• The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.

  Bruce Lee

  Soul, Unfolding, Interest

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.239, Tuttle Publishing

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• Truth cannot be structured or confined.

  Bruce Lee

  Confined

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.205, Tuttle Publishing

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• Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Two, Simplicity

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

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• Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Philosophical, Self

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

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• Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

  Bruce Lee

  Persistence, Practice, Effort

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Fighting, Artist

  "Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", 1973.

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• The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Mind, Stopping

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• If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophical, Thinking, Martial Arts

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• You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Thinking, Sky

  "Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview". Short, Talk-Show, 1994.

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Moving, Movement

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 5), 2000.

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• When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Eye, Fighting

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• True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

  Bruce Lee

  Expression, Patterns, Freedom Of Expression

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.123, Tuttle Publishing

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• Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.

  Bruce Lee

  Training, Energy, Weight

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.51, Tuttle Publishing

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• The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Thinking

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

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• Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Borders

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.184, Tuttle Publishing

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• Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Achievement, Today

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.327, Tuttle Publishing

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• Belts are only good for holding up your pants

  Bruce Lee

  Pants, Belts

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• I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Fighting, Style

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

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• Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

  Bruce Lee

  Gun, Hands, People

  "The Pierre Berton Show", 1971.

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• The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

  Bruce Lee

  Reality, Thinking, Primaries

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.65, Tuttle Publishing

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• There are too many stars and too few actors.

  Bruce Lee

  Stars, Actors

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.139, Tuttle Publishing

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• There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Believe, Simple

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