“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“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.”
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Bruce Lee
“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
“If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible.”
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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 consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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Bruce Lee
“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend.”
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Bruce Lee
“Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
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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
“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
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Bruce Lee
“Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.”
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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
“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”
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Bruce Lee
