“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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Bruce Lee
“We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day — sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.”
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Bruce Lee
“To free one’s self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.”
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Bruce Lee
“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”
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Bruce Lee
“As you think, so shall you become.”
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Bruce Lee
“Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing.”
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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. 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
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
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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 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
“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”
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Bruce Lee
