Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 18

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• When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

  Bruce Lee

  Moon, Thinking, Tasks

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• Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

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  Here I Am, Humans, Human Beings

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.60, Tuttle Publishing

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• You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

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  Wind, Alive, Force

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

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• Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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  Men, Creating, Style

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.154, Tuttle Publishing

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• To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

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  Art, Lying, Cocky

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• Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

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  Guy, Too Much, Students

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• More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

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  Believe, Hands, Two

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.64, Tuttle Publishing

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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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• After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

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  Mean, Self, Self Knowledge

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.389, Tuttle Publishing

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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 beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law.

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  Believe, Law, People

  "Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way".

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• If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

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  Distance, Eye, Elbows

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

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• When you freely express, you are the total style.

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  Style

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.329, Tuttle Publishing

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• Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

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  Motivational, Philosophical, Judging

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• Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

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  Dream, Self, Realization

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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• Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

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  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.99, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

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  Men, Noses, Care

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• Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

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  Interesting, Style, Aikido

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

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  Life, Success, Memories

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• Efficiency is anything that scores.

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  Efficiency, Score

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

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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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• If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

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  Artist, Martial Arts, Efficiency

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• There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

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  Believe, Guy, Lazy

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• The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

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  Art, Opportunity, Expression

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• I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.

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  Inspiring, Believe, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Be like water, my friend.

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  Water, My Friends

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