“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
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Bruce Lee
“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”
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Bruce Lee
“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
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Bruce Lee
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
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Bruce Lee
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
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Bruce Lee
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“Showing off is the fool's idea of 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
“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
“Relationship is a process of self-revelation.”
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Bruce Lee
“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.”
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Bruce Lee
“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”
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Bruce Lee
