“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
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Bruce Lee
“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
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Bruce Lee
“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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Bruce Lee
“What you must not do now is to worry and think of the Nationals that is now of the past. What you HABITUALLY THINK largely determines what you will become. Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. I have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.”
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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
“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”
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Bruce Lee
“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
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Bruce Lee
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity
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Bruce Lee
“Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else; it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being... There are NO limits. There are plateus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
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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
“A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.”
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Bruce Lee
“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
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Bruce Lee
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”
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Bruce Lee
“I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times”
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Bruce Lee
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
