“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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
“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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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
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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Bruce Lee
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
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Bruce Lee
“Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume. Remembrances last longer than present realities; I have preserved blossoms for many years, but never fruits.”
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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
“Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
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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
“Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.”
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Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
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Bruce Lee
“A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously.”
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Bruce Lee
“Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.”
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Bruce Lee
