Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 8

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• Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Attitude

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

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• I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

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  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

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  Motivational, Struggle, Views

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

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• Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

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  Exercise, Mind, Needs

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• Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

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  Heart, Listening, Mind

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

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• Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

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  Truth, Giving, Choices

  "Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

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• I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

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  Happiness, Self, Games

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• Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

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  Effort, Minimum, Maximum

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• Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

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  Optimism, Martial Arts, Martial Arts Inspirational

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

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  Fighting, Mma, Use

  "Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit". Book by Bruce Thomas, p. 44, 1994.

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• Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

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  Self, Perception, Rewards

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.78, Tuttle Publishing

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• Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.

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• The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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  Mind, Possession

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.371, Tuttle Publishing

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• Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

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  Flow, Moments, Openness

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 13, 2000.

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• Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

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  Flow, Becoming, Moments

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

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• Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.

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  Flow, Life Is, Process

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

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• Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

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  Moving, Echoes, Mirrors

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

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• To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

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  Decision, Forever, Gone

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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• You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

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  Opportunity, Luck, Advantage

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.125, Tuttle Publishing

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• True refinement seeks simplicity.

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  Spiritual, Simplicity, Spirituality

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.227, Tuttle Publishing

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• Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

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  Should, Conceptualization, Concepts

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

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• In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

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  Motivational, Powerful, Order

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing

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• We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Matter

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.233, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

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  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

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• The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.

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  Men, Style, Boxers

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