Bruce Lee
Actor
1940-11-27 – 1973-07-20
Martial artist, actor, and filmmaker who became a global icon through films such as Enter the Dragon and his philosophy of Jeet Kune Do. He transformed the international image of martial arts cinema.
Quotes by Bruce Lee
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The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.
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Real living is living for others.
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Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.
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A conditioned mind is never a free mind.
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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.
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True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.
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I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.
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Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
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I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
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Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.
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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
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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. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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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The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
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Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
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The doubters said, Man can not fly, The doers said, Maybe, but we'll try, And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.
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Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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