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Bruce Lee QuotesBruce Lee is one of the most extraordinary artists of the 20th century, and arguably of all time. Why? First it is important to know that the martial arts requires its practitioners to not only be athletes, but artists too. Like figure skating and gymnastics the martial arts inherently combines art and athletics. The martial arts, especially those which Bruce practiced, including T'ai Chi and his own style, called Jee Kune-Do, are among the high arts. And one can hear the artistic language and experiences in Bruce's quotes. Martial art forms and techniques typically require years to learn and decades to master. Yet in a rather short time on earth Bruce Lee mastered the martial arts, both as an athlete and artist like no one else. The teachings and philosophies behind the martial arts has a 4,000, or more, year old history and Lee was, and will forever be, part of this history. Accordingly, Bruce was great teacher and philosopher. His combination as a master teacher, philosopher, athlete and artist made him not only unique and extraordinary, but one of the highest thinking and most influential artists of the 20th century. Now, the art of Bruce Lee does not stop at the martial arts - Bruce was a visionary film artist too. He envisioned using film to bring the Chinese martial arts to the United States and Western Hemisphere. Though he died in his early thirties his vision was actualized. His film work was influential in bringing the martial arts to the West and in the process he helped establish a new American film genre. Bruce's quotes reflect his flexible intellect and, in general, are good representations of Chinese philosophy, which is filled with ideas that are thoughtful, paradoxical and applicable to life. The below Bruce Lee quotes are organized into three categories: Proverbs, Techniques and Philosophy. Proverbs A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. ~ Bruce Lee Knowledge will give you power, but character, respect.
~ Bruce Lee If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ~ Bruce Lee In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~ Bruce Lee Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. ~ Bruce Lee 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. ~ Bruce Lee As you think, so shall you become. Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ~ Bruce Lee Technique Mere technical knowledge is only the beginning of Kung Fu, to master it, one must enter into the spirit of it. ~ Bruce Lee 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. ~ Bruce Lee Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. ~ Bruce Lee Simplicity is the key to brilliance. ~ Bruce Lee Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ~ Bruce Lee Use only that which works, and take it from any place you find it. ~ Bruce Lee Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation. ~ Bruce Lee If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ~ Bruce Lee Philosophy Use only that which works, and take it from any place you find it. ~ Bruce Lee 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. Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation. ~ Bruce Lee Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite — there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all being. ~ Bruce Lee Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped. ~ Bruce Lee Let the spirit out — Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.
~ Bruce Lee To see a thing uncoloured by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.~ Bruce Lee 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. ~ Bruce Lee In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiselling away at the inessentials until the truth of its creation is revealed without obstructions. Thus, contrary to other styles, being wise in Jeet Kune-Do doesn't mean adding more; it means to minimize, in other words to hack away the unessential. ~ Bruce Lee Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. ~ Bruce Lee If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. ~ Bruce Lee It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. ~ Bruce Lee The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.~ Bruce Lee Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. ~ Bruce Lee
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