Bruce Lee Quotes
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Bruce Lee Quotes
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand. And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by itself (shows his fist).
A good JKD man does not oppose force or give way completely. He is pliable as a spring; he is the complement and not the opposition to his opponent’s strength. He has no technique; he makes his opponent's technique his technique. He has no design; he makes opportunity his design.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee Quotes
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not you go out and look for a successfull personality an duplicate it.
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
Bruce Lee Quotes
As you think, so shall you become.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot
Boards don't hit back.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee QuotesDo not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
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.
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
Bruce Lee QuotesIf 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.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
In JKD, one does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
In primary freedom, one utilizes all ways and is bound by none, and likewise uses any techniques or means which serves one's end. Efficiency is anything that scores.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee QuotesKnowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
The doubters said, “Man cannot fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try, “And finally soared, In the morning glow, While non-believers, Watched from below."
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Now I see that I will never find the light.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation.
When in actual combat, you're not fighting a corpse. Your opponent is a living, moving object who is not in a fixed position, but fluid and alive. Deal with him realistically, not as though you're fighting a robot. Traditionally, classical form and efficiency are both equally important. I'm not saying form is not important - economy of form that is - but to me, efficiency is anything that scores. Don't indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves. You'll get clobbered if you do, and in a street fight you'll have your shirt zipped off you.