“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
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Bruce Lee
“Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.”
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Bruce Lee
“The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.”
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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
“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
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Bruce Lee
“To Bruce Lee, philosophy was not the professional playground of academics, but every human being’s gateway to the greatest adventure of the human spirit. It illuminated the frontiers of human possibility and obliterated the shadows of doubt and insecurity. Unlike others, content to follow, Bruce Lee insisted upon charting his own course toward truth, and he encouraged those who wished to share his insights to do likewise. While Lee was a champion of individual rights and individual development, both of which stress the sovereignty of the individual as an end in himself, he also spoke to something deeper—the commonality of all human beings and the removal of such artificial barriers to true brotherhood as nationality, ethnicity, and class structure, so that human beings could live together peaceably as independent equals. Bruce Lee rejected blind obedience to”
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Bruce Lee
“Jeet Kune Do, you see, has no definite lines or boundaries — only those you make yourself.”
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Bruce Lee
“Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee”
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Bruce Lee
“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
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Bruce Lee
“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
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Bruce Lee
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
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Bruce Lee
“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
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Bruce Lee
“The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.”
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Bruce Lee
“Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.”
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Bruce Lee
“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
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Bruce Lee
