Bruce Lee quotes - page 8

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. (Bruce Lee)
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. View quote
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Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end. View quote
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Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art "lives” where absolute freedom is. View quote
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Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. View quote
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Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him. View quote
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In Science we have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no "things." View quote
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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. View quote
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Of course you're there. Death is always there. View quote
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Life is better lived than conceptualized. View quote
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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)
If thought exists, I who think and the world about which I think also exist; the one exists but for the other, having no possible separation between them. View quote
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. View quote
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Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays. View quote
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There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. View quote
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You must have complete determination. View quote
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All of his classical techniques and standard styles are minimized, if not wiped out, and nothingness prevails. He is no longer confined. View quote
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Because I will conquer death with death. View quote
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What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. View quote
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My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty. View quote
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I have changed from self-image actualization to self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance. (Bruce Lee)
Be aware of doing your best to understand the ROOT in life, and realize the DIRECT and the INDIRECT are in fact a complementary WHOLE. View quote
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I do not think unless I think of things - and there I find myself. View quote
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When our mind is tranquil, there will be an occasional pause to its feverish activities, there will be a let-go, and it is only then in the interval between two thoughts that a flash of UNDERSTANDING - understanding, which is not thought - can take place. View quote
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The Three Stages of Cultivation. View quote
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