“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
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Bruce Lee
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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Bruce Lee
“All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. ”
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Bruce Lee
“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times”
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Bruce Lee
“I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!”
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Bruce Lee
“There was nothing haphazard about Bruce’s training regime, neither was he particularly “lucky” in having started out with natural physical gifts. The greatest talents that Bruce brought to realizing his dreams were intelligence and curiosity (hand in hand, a powerful combination), dedication and perseverance (stick-to-itiveness even in the face of intervening obstacles), and focus (enjoying the journey as much as the destination).”
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Bruce Lee
“Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.”
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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
“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
“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
“Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.”
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Bruce Lee
