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\"Bruce<\/a>
Bruce Lee quotes and wise words<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

As you think, so shall you become.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. <\/span>
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The possession of anything begins in the mind.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Obey the principles without being bound by them.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Real living is living for others.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays you don’t go around on the street kicking people, punching people \u2014 because if you do, well that’s it \u2014 I don’t care how good you are.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon my fists began to swell from hitting his hard head. Right then I realized Wing Chun was not too practical and began to alter my way of fighting.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don’t want to be like “As Confucius say,” but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Boards don’t hit back.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, “I” do not hit, “it” hits all by itself.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t think, feel….it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely \u2014 lay your life before him.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless \u2014 like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow \u2014 you are not understanding yourself.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Reality is being itself. It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the “isness” of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning \u2014 having freedom in its primary sense \u2014 not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred \u2014 the human law in himself, his own individual will.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The dualistic philosophy reigned supreme in Europe, dominating the development of Western science. But with the advent of atomic physics, findings based on demonstrable experiment were seen to negate the dualistic theory, and the trend of thought since then has been back to the monistic conception of the ancient Taoists.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat \u2014 to learn to die \u2014 is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose \u2014 to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is better lived than conceptualized.\u00a0 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 \u2014 not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Choose the positive.\u00a0 You have choice \u2014 you are master of your attitude \u2014 choose the POSITIVE, the CONSTRUCTIVE. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Cease negative mental chattering. \u2014 If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t fear failure. \u2014 Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.<\/span>
\n Bruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Lee Quotes 2<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bruce Lee Reflections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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