“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done”
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Bruce Lee
“Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything.”
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Bruce Lee
“Goals give life substance. - To strive actively to achieve some goal gives your life meaning and substance.”
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Bruce Lee
“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”
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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
“I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times.”
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Bruce Lee
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
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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
“Self-actualization is the important thing. And my personal message to people is that I hope they will go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization. I hope that they will search within themselves for honest self-expression. — Bruce Lee”
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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
“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”
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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
“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
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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
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
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Bruce Lee
