Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Bruce Lee
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Martial Artist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Stunt Coordinator
Stunt Performer
Television Actor
Tung Wah Dispensary
Lee Jun-fan
Firsts
Starting
First
Empty
Preconceived
Must
Taste
Neutral
Friend
Emptiness
Point
Cups
Water
Drop
Order
Fixed
Ideas
Useful
More quotes by Bruce Lee
Live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
Bruce Lee
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.
Bruce Lee
Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.
Bruce Lee
Efficiency is anything that scores.
Bruce Lee
Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.
Bruce Lee
The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.
Bruce Lee
People fear what they do not understand.
Bruce Lee
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.
Bruce Lee
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.
Bruce Lee
To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing it is a path leading to success and truth.
Bruce Lee
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
Bruce Lee
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee
All goals apart from the means are illusions becoming is a denial of being.
Bruce Lee
I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.
Bruce Lee
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
Bruce Lee
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Bruce Lee
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Bruce Lee
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.
Bruce Lee
