“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
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Bruce Lee
“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”
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Bruce Lee
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
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Bruce Lee
“The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.”
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Bruce Lee
“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.”
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Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
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Bruce Lee
“Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.”
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Bruce Lee
“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
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Bruce Lee
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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Bruce Lee
“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 — 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.”
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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
“Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.”
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Bruce Lee
“The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.”
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Bruce Lee
“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
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Bruce Lee
