Good Quotes from Bruce Lee

Good Quotes from Bruce Lee:

• Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
• A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough
• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at
• 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
• If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you
• If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.
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• A good martial artist does not become tense but ready. Not thinking yet not dreaming, ready for whatever may come. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and face the consequences of his own doing. To have no technique, there is no opponent, because the word "I" does not exist. 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.
• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
• Art is the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom. Though they play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. 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. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that — no fuss, no mess. In other words, when someone grabs you, punch him. To me a lot of this fancy stuff is not functional.
• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand
• As you think, so shall you become.
• Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
• Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation. Jeet Kune-Do is basically a sophisticated fighting style stripped to its essentials
• By adopting a certain physical posture, a resonant chord is struck in spirit
• To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities
• Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there
• Eventually, you learn to read groups of words. Where a student will see three motions, the experienced man will see one, because he sees the overall energy path
• Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
• 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-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. 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
• I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
• I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.
• If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting, If I tell you I'm no good, You know I'm lying.
• 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.
• If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today
• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
• In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the inessentials until the truth of its creation is revealed without obstructions. Thus, contrary to other styles, being wise in Jeet Kune-Do doesn't mean adding more; it means to minimize, in other words to hack away the unessential.

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