“If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
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Bruce Lee
“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
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Bruce Lee
“The attitude, “You can win if you want to badly enough,” means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too “tough” to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner’s ideals and dreams.”
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Bruce Lee
“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
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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
“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
“My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.”
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Bruce Lee
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
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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 more you know, the more you know you don't know. Stay curious.”
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Bruce Lee
“The law of non-interference with nature. — The law of non-interference with nature is a basic principle of Taoism [stating] that one should be in harmony with, not rebellion against, the fundamental laws of the universe. Preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don’t interfere. Remember never to assert your self against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but to control it by swinging with it.”
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Bruce Lee
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
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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
