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Bruce Lee

[Lee Jun-fan] (1940-1973) Hong Kong American martial artist, actor, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, and the founder of Jeet Kune Do Legend and true individual he was and will always be.

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A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

– Bruce Lee

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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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If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say that I am boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

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If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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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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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.

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When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit--it hits all by itself.

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To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

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The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

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

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Boards don't hit back, O'Hara

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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.

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Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

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Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

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

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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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Empty your mind. Be formless shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can either flow, or it can crash! Be like water, my friend.

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From form to formless and from finite to infinite

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Having no limitation as limitation

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Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

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If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.

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If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

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One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

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

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The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions.

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True refinement seeks simplicity.

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Using no way as way

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That went on the longest and David Tadman started to be less discreet, david Tadman would go out on dates with her in town where other people could see them … I think her whole life was marked by Bruce’s death. It’s a wound she never fully recovered from. I was struck by how intense her feelings for Bruce are. She basically said he was the love of her life. It was interesting to talk to this woman who was still in love with someone who died so long ago. Her feelings for him are still just as intense.

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Times are changing now, it's better with all of these positive role models and that's what I hope to become for the younger girls, to encourage them to take part in martial arts.

– Bruce Lee

Found on CNN 9 years ago

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