“All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. ”
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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
“Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
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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
“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.”
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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
“It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”
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Bruce Lee
“Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
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Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”
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Bruce Lee
“To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.”
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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
“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
“Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi.”
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Bruce Lee