“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”
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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
“To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.”
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Bruce Lee
“Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man’s body, his mind, or his spirit.”
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Bruce Lee
“The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.”
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Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure the difficult one”
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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
“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
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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
“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
“showing off is the fools's idea of glory.”
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Bruce Lee
“There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.”
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Bruce Lee
“To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself—that, my friend, is very hard to do.”
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Bruce Lee
“Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee”
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Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
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Bruce Lee
