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Bruce Lee Quotes - Page 18

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Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

Choices, Anxiety, Perception

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

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Art, Creativity, Men

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.140, Tuttle Publishing

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Dream, Self, Realization

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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.

Evil, Worry, Anxiety

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.99, Tuttle Publishing

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Inspiring, Mastery, Patterns

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

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

Interesting, Style, Aikido

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Art, Opportunity, Expression

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

Distance, Eye, Elbows

Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.86, Tuttle Publishing

There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

Believe, Guy, Lazy

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Motivational, Philosophical, Judging

When you freely express, you are the total style.

Style

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.329, Tuttle Publishing

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Artist, Martial Arts, Efficiency

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Life, Meaning Of Life, Life Is

"Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, p. 3, 2000.

You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

Mean, Thinking, Sky

"Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview". Short, Talk-Show, 1994.

When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

Moon, Missing, Looks

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Art, Overcoming, Opponents

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.27, Tuttle Publishing

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

Lying, Mean, Self

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

Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

Knowing, Movement, Source

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.9, Tuttle Publishing

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

Real, Eye, Fighting

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

Ambition, Men, Self

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.129, Tuttle Publishing

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.

Mirrors, Understanding, Feelings

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

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Self, Support, Environmental

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.83, Tuttle Publishing

It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

Men, Noses, Care

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

Art, Psychics, Vision

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

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.

Life, Success, Memories

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