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Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 16

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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Time, Trying, Schedules

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Motivational, Creation, Repetition

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

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

Persistence, Practice, Effort

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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

Lying, Cocky, Easy

Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess.

Moving, Play, Echoes

Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

Death, Real, Forever

"The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 77), 1996.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

Moving, Way, Path

Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.

Men, Here I Am, Growth

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Accomplishment, Actors, Action

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

Art, Achievement, Today

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.327, Tuttle Publishing

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Strength, Hands, Feet

Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.

Moving, Mean, Views

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

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Art, Mean, Style

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

Philosophical, Self, Execution

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.57, Tuttle Publishing

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

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

When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

Moving, Opposites, Circles

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

Guy, Too Much, Students

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!

Art, Winning, Mind

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

Learn it all, then forget it all.

Workout, Motivational Workout, Forget

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Perfect, Want, Halfway

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.116, Tuttle Publishing

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

Infinite, Form, Finite

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

Philosophy, Two, Heaven

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Life, Letting Go, Running

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

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

Book, Independent, Views

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.209, Tuttle Publishing

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Fighting, Reality, Greatness

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