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Bruce Lee
Age: 32 †
Born: 1940
Born: November 27
Died: 1973
Died: July 20
Actor
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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.
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What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
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Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
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Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
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Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down
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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.
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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
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Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.
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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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