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Its not what happens that counts... It's how you react.

Bruce Lee

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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
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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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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
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We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone we are not alone when we imitate.
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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.
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
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Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
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Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
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A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
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Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
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Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.
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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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The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
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The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.
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The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.
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One must be truthful and honest in his approach a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
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A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.
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Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
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If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.
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Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image
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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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