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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (Jun Fan, 李振藩, 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, martial artist, philosopher, film director, screenwriter, practitioner of Wing Chun and founder of the Jeet Kune Do concept. He is considered by many as the...
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Filter this CollectionIf people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.
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- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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Empty your mind. Be formless shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can either flow, or it can crash! Be like water, my friend.
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To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.
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The consciousness of "self" is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action
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- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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From form to formless and from finite to infinite
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The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.
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- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
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If 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.
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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
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To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
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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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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
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The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.
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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.
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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
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