“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
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Bruce Lee
“if you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you will never get it done”
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Bruce Lee
“The law of non-interference with nature. — The law of non-interference with nature is a basic principle of Taoism [stating] that one should be in harmony with, not rebellion against, the fundamental laws of the universe. Preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don’t interfere. Remember never to assert your self against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but to control it by swinging with it.”
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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
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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Bruce Lee
“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.”
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Bruce Lee
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
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Bruce Lee
“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
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Bruce Lee
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
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Bruce Lee
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
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Bruce Lee
“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
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Bruce Lee
