Bruce Lee Quotes About Martial Arts
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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
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To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
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All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.
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Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.
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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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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
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Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
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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.
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
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Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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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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.
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A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.
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The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.
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I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.
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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
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I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
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The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
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I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
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Be happy, but never satisfied.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
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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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