“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. ”
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Bruce Lee
“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.
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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Bruce Lee
“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ”
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Bruce Lee
“To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.”
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Bruce Lee
“Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“...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 plateaus, 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
“But neither can you 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
“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
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Bruce Lee
“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'.
The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment.
Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind.
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Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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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
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.”
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Bruce Lee
“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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Bruce Lee
