Bruce Lee Quotes
A Chinese American martial artist and actor who is widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century.
(1940 - 1973)
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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
[Goals]
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
[Temper]
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
[Question]
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Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.
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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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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
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An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
[Teaching]
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
[Teaching]
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As you think, so shall you become.
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Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
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Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.
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Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.
[Learning]
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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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Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.
[Faith]
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Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
[Faith]
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.
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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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If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
[Love]
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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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