“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”
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Bruce Lee
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
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Bruce Lee
“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. 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.”
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Bruce Lee
“Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”
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Bruce Lee
“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
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Bruce Lee
“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
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Bruce Lee
“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”
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Bruce Lee
“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.”
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Bruce Lee
“You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
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Bruce Lee
“But neither can you 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.”
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Bruce Lee
“The path of self-realisation is the most difficult. -We acquire a sense of worth either by realising our talents, or by keeping busy, or by identifying ourselves with something apart from us - be it a cause, a leader, a group, possessions, and the like. Of the three, the path of self-realisation is the most difficult. It is taken when other avenues to a sense of worth are more or less blocked.”
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Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
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Bruce Lee
“I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!”
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Bruce Lee
