About Bruce Lee:

Bruce Lee is widely considered by commentators, critics, media and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

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I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

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

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Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consci...

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Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

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In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

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It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

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Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

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Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.

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Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

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If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

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Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

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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.

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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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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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Author Bio

NameBruce Lee
DescriptionChinese martial arts instructor, philosopher and actor
AliasesLee Jun-fan
BornNovember 27, 1940
DiedJuly 20, 1973
CountryUnited States Of America
ProfessionFilm Director; Television Actor; Film Actor; Writer; Film Producer; Philosopher; Screenwriter; Actor

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