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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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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

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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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Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

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Men, Here I Am, Growth

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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.

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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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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.

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Running, Simplicity, Height

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The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

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Inspirational, Morning, Men

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Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

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Art, Mean, Style

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It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Bruce Lee

Learning, Skills, Growth

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Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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Inspiring, Mastery, Patterns

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

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I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Bruce Lee

Perfect, Want, Halfway

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.116, Tuttle Publishing

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Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess.

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Moving, Play, Echoes

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Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.

Bruce Lee

Negativity, Ease, Way

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Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.

Bruce Lee

Limitation

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Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

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Book, Independent, Views

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.209, Tuttle Publishing

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Take what's useful, discard what is not.

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Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

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Moving, Way, Path

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From form to formless and from finite to infinite

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Infinite, Form, Finite

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Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

Bruce Lee

Death, Real, Forever

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

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All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

Bruce Lee

Self, Self Knowledge

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Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of
indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is
no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process,
an ever-renewing process.

Bruce Lee

Dedication, Realization, Growing

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When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

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Moon, Missing, Looks

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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.

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Experts, Done, Levels

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The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

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Art, Exercise, Endurance

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

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Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

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Art, Creativity, Men

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing

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I think of myself as a human being.

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Thoughtful, Thinking, Humans

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

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Born: November 27, 1940
Died: July 20, 1973
Occupation: Martial Artist
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