Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 9

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• I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Lying, Past

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• If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

  Bruce Lee

  Swimming, Land, Water

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• Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

  Bruce Lee

  Dream, Thinking, Mma

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• A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

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  Chance, Fighter, Strikes

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• For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spirit

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.182, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Inspiring, People

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

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Opponents, Obsession

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.34, Tuttle Publishing

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• To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

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  World, Telling The Truth, Beats

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.33, Tuttle Publishing

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• To me, racial barriers do not exist in reality. If I say that 'everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,' you may think that I am bluffing and being idealistic. But if anyone still believes in racial differences, I think he is too backward and narrow in his perspective. Perhaps he still does not understand man's equality and love.

  Bruce Lee

  Believe, Reality, Men

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Real, Fighting

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

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• When one has no form, one can be all forms.

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  Mma, Form

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.121, Tuttle Publishing

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• One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

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  Simple, Goal, Use

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• If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

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  Men, Would Be, Helping

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.72, Tuttle Publishing

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• The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

  Bruce Lee

  Mind, Conditioning, Day To Day

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

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• Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

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  Philosophy, Two, Heaven

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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• False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

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  Teacher, Use, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

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  Art, Form, Art Is

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.

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  Struggle, Routine, Responding

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.186, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Philosophical, Writing

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

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• A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

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  Teacher, Art, Mind

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• You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

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  This Life

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.362, Tuttle Publishing

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• One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

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  Inspiring, Running, Humor

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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  Life, Time, Mean

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

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• We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

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  Standing Alone, Certitude

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.240, Tuttle Publishing

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• The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

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  Meaning Of Life, Life Is

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.3, Tuttle Publishing

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