“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”
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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
“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”
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Bruce Lee
“The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think. Although this living may not be a real living. God! What contradictions when we seek to join in wedlock life and reason!”
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Bruce Lee
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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Bruce Lee
“Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.”
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Bruce Lee
“Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.”
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Bruce Lee
“To understand techniques, you must learn that they contain a lot of condensed movement.”
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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
“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
“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
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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
“...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits.”
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Bruce Lee
“When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.”
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Bruce Lee
“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
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Bruce Lee
