Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 16

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• There are too many stars and too few actors.

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  Stars, Actors

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

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• Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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  Fighting, Reality, Greatness

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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.

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  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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• To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

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  Motivational, Creation, Repetition

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.6, Tuttle Publishing

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• The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

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  Art, Lying, Mean

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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.

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  Lying, Believe, Simple

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• The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

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  Time, Trying, Schedules

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

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  Strength, Hands, Feet

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• Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

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  Lying, Mean, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

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  Defined, Nothingness

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

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• Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

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  Real, Men, Doe

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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• It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

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  Lying, Cocky, Easy

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• The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

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  Philosophical, Self, Execution

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.57, Tuttle Publishing

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• The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

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  Important, Use, Body

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.63, Tuttle Publishing

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

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  Reality, Thinking, Primaries

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

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• What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

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  Real, Creativity, Expression

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.11, Tuttle Publishing

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• The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

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  Accomplishment, Actors, Action

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

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  Inspiring, Artist, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Learn it all, then forget it all.

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  Workout, Motivational Workout, Forget

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• A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

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  Artist, Doe, Mastery

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

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• The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

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  Men, Style, Serious

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.204, Tuttle Publishing

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• A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

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  Men, Self, Law

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

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  Life, Letting Go, Running

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

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• When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

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  Moving, Opposites, Circles

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

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  Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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