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• It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

  John Norman

  Excellent, Brilliant Ideas, One Thing

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• The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

  Bruce Lee

  Powerful, Reality, Martial Arts

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

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• There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Powerful, Peaceful

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

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• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Effort, Language

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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.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Patterns, Martial Arts

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

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• If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

  John Paul Jones

  Faith, Stronger, Achieve

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• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

  Bruce Lee

  Wise, Wisdom, Stupid

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivation, Anger

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• Real living is living for others.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivation, Real

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• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

  Bruce Lee

  Relationship, Motivation, Acting

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

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• The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

  Bruce Lee

  Skills, Martial Arts, Emptiness

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

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• Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

  Thomas Mann

  Order, Simplicity, Steps

  Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage

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• When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Profound

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. Chapter: "Painting and Culture", p. 58, 1948.

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• Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

  Bruce Lee

  Change, Moving On, Success

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

  Roger McDonald

  Success, Law, Limits

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• A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Uplifting, Determination

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

  Laozi

  Positive, Encouragement, Powerful

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.36, Jain Publishing Company

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• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

  Ansel Adams

  Life, Wisdom, Photography

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.333, Hachette UK

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Motivational, Journey, Differences

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• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, Passion, Men

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

  Bruce Lee

  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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• 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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• If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, If There Is A God, Giving

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