Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 16

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Lying, Mean

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Men, Doe

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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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 ?

  Bruce Lee

  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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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  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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• Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

  Bruce Lee

  Reality, Views, Twisted

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

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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.

  Bruce Lee

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

  Bruce Lee

  Defined, Nothingness

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

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  Strength, Hands, Feet

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

  Bruce Lee

  Fighting, Reality, Greatness

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

  Bruce Lee

  Artist, Doe, Mastery

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

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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

  Bruce Lee

  Lying, Cocky, Easy

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Artist, Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

  Bruce Lee

  Children, Growth, Expansion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  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 did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

  Bruce Lee

  Expectations, Done, Sincerity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.25, Tuttle Publishing

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• Learn it all, then forget it all.

  Bruce Lee

  Workout, Motivational Workout, Forget

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• The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

  Bruce Lee

  Running, Simplicity, Height

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  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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• Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

  Bruce Lee

  Powerful, Reality, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.212, Tuttle Publishing

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  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.

  Bruce Lee

  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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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

  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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• 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.

  Bruce Lee

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

  Bruce Lee

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

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Letting Go, Running

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

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