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Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 11

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The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from

The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

Philosophy, Reality, Squares

"Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, pp. 15 - 16, 2000.

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.

Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

Love, Romantic, Soulmate

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

Emotional, Giving, Profound

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Art, Expression, Athletic

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Strength, Inspiring, Mma

"Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

Self, Self Knowledge

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Truth, Giving, Choices

"Tao of Jeet Kune Do". Book by Bruce Lee, 1975.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

Art, Flower, Mind

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.15, Tuttle Publishing

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

Style, Conformity

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Powerful, Fire, Brilliant

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

The unconditioned mind intuits truth.

Mind

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

I don't believe in getting something for nothing.

Believe, Don't Believe

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

Skills, Training, Development

Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

Running, Simplicity, Height

Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression.

Self, Expression, Mma

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

Reality, Thinking, Primaries

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.65, Tuttle Publishing

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

Life, Philosophical, Writing

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

Mean, Self, Type

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.224, Tuttle Publishing

Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Mirrors, Self, Evaluation

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Focus, Mind

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

Broken, Clay, Pieces

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

Teacher, Believe, Order

"Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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

Mean, Mind, Quiet

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.40, Tuttle Publishing

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

Art, Responsibility, Accepting

"Fictional character: Lee". "Enter the Dragon", www.imdb.com. 1973.

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