Bruce Lee Quotes

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Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

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It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

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The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

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It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to do

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Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

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The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily.

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Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

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Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

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Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

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Though they play an important role in the early stages, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex, or restrictive. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. When attacked, your response is not technique 1, 2, 3, 4, 5--rather you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. React as when I throw something to you, you catch it. Nothing else.

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Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

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In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.

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Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

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To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

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Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

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Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

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Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

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The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

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Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

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Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

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Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

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