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Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 13

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Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Inventory, Contact

Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.

Journey, Remember, Life Is

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Army, Men, Bones

Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

Reality, Views, Twisted

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.19, Tuttle Publishing

I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.

Believe, Fighting, Style

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Art, Reflection, Soul

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Relationship, Motivation, Acting

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

Inspirational, Art, Maturity

"Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

Motivational, Mind, Bears

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.2, Tuttle Publishing

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Inspirational, Lying, Mastery

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.206, Tuttle Publishing

To live is to express oneself freely

Oneself

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.6, Tuttle Publishing

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Art, Remember You, Remembers You

"Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

Inspiring, Self, Robots

Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.184, Tuttle Publishing

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

Mirrors, Over You, Self Evaluation

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.181, Tuttle Publishing

To change with change is the changeless state

States

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

Inspirational, Art, Thinking

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

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

Thinking, Skills, Slow Down

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

Art, Philosophical, Self

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

I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

Wisdom, Believe, Students

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

Passion, Doe, Form

Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

Support, Training, Technique

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

Water, Trying, Useless

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.97, Tuttle Publishing

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

Reality, Two, Oneness

Bruce Lee (1987). “Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self Defense”, p.80, Black Belt Communications

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

Real, Men, Doe

"Tao of Jeet Kune Do".

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