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A Good Teacher Can Never Be Fixed In A Routine... Each Moment Requires A Sensitive Mind That Is Constantly Changing And Constantly Adapting. A Teacher Must Never Impose This Student To Fit His Favourite Pattern; A Good Teacher Functions As A Pointer, Exposing His Student's Vulnerability And Causing Him To Explore Both Internally And Finally Integrating Himself With His Being. Martial Art Should Not Be Passed Out Indiscriminately.

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A Good Teacher Can

Bruce Lee

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A Good Teacher Can Never Be Fixed In A Routine... Each Moment Requires A Sensitive Mind That Is Constantly Changing And Constantly Adapting. A Teacher Must Never Impose This Student To Fit His Favourite Pattern; A Good Teacher Functions As A Pointer, Exposing His Student's Vulnerability And Causing Him To Explore Both Internally And Finally Integrating Himself With His Being. Martial Art Should Not Be Passed Out Indiscriminately.

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Evaluation By Others Is Not A Guide For Me.

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Never Trouble Trouble Till Trouble Troubles You. I'll Not Willingly Offend, Nor Be Easily Offended.

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Either Push Your Limits Or Die.

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To Develop The Creative Attitude, Analyze And Focus On The Wanted Solution; Seek Out And Fill Your Mind With The Facts; Write Down Ideas, Both Sensible And Seemingly Wild; Let The Facts And Ideas Simmer In Your Mind; Evaluate, Recheck, Settle On The Creative Ideas.

True Thusness Is The Substance Of Thought, And Thought Is The Function Of True Thusness. There Is No Thought Except That Of True Thusness. Thusness Does Not Move, But Its Motion And Function Are Inexhaustible.

The Deluded Mind Is The Mind Affectively Burdened By Intellect. Thus, It Cannot Move Without Stopping And Reflecting On Itself. This Obstructs Its Native Fluidity.

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Faith Makes It Possible To Achieve That Which Man's Mind Can Conceive And Believe.

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.

When We Hold To The Core, The Opposite Sides Are The Same If They Are Seen From The Center Of The Moving Circle. I Do Not Experience; I Am Experience. I Am Not The Subject Of Experience; I Am That Experience. I Am Awareness. Nothing Else Can Be I Or Can Exist.

Have No Rigid System In You, And You'll Be Flexible To Change With The Ever Changing.

All Types Of Knowledge Ultimately Lead To Self-knowledge. So, Therefore, These People Are Asking Me To Teach Them, Not So Much How To Defend Themselves Or How To Do Somebody In. Rather, They Want To Learn To Express Themselves Through Some Movement, Be It Anger, Be It Determination Or Whatever. So, In Other Words, They're Paying Me To Show Them, In Combative Form, The Art Of Expressing The Human Body.

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.

All Martial Art Is Simply An Honest Expression Of One's Body — With A Lot Of Deception In Between.

Everybody Has To Think For Himself. A Right Way For A Big Man May Not Be A Right Way For A Small Man. A Right Way For Someone Who Is Slow May Not Be A Right Way For Someone Who Is Quick. Each Person Must Understand His Weaknesses And His Strengths.

Do Not Run Away; Let Go. Do Not Seek; For It Will Come When Least Expected.

One Rule Is To Not Use Complicated Techniques Unless They Are Necessary To Achieve Your Goal. First, Use Simple Movements, And If They Don't Work, Then Introduce The More Complex Ones.

To Reach Me, You Must Move To Me. Your Attack Offers Me An Opportunity To Intercept You.

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If One Loves, One Need Not Have An Ideology Of Love.

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.

Obey The Principles Without Being Bound By Them.

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