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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.

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Bruce Lee

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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.

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There's So Much Myth And Baloney. Like A 80-year-old Man Able To Manhandle A 300-pounder With His Little Finger. Ridiculous. Or This Matter Of Breaking Bricks And Boards Wth The Edge Of Your Hand. Now I Ask You, Did You Ever See A Brick Or A Board Pick A Fight With Anybody?

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Only The Self-sufficient Stand Alone - Most People Follow The Crowd And Imitate.

The Ideal Is Unnatural Naturalness, Or Natural Unnaturalness. I Mean It Is A Combination Of Both. I Mean Here Is Natural Instinct And Here Is Control. You Are To Combine The Two In Harmony. Not If You Have One To The Extreme, You'll Be Very Unscientific. If You Have Another To The Extreme, You Become, All Of A Sudden, A Mechanical Man No Longer A Human Being. It Is A Successful Combination Of Both. That Way It Is A Process Of Continuing Growth.

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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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Self-conquest Is The Greatest Of Victories. Mighty Is He Who Conquers Himself.

The Stillness In Stillness Is Not The Real Stillness; Only When There Is Stillness In Movement Does The Universal Rhythm Manifest.

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Emotion Can Be The Enemy, If You Give Into Your Emotion, You Lose Yourself. You Must Be At One With Your Emotion, Because The Body Always Follows The Mind.

Relationship Is The Mirror In Which You Discover Yourself - To Be Is To Be Related.

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But To Those Who Kept Saying "it Can't Be Done," Never Are The Victories Or The Honors Won. But, Rather, By The Believing, Doing Kind, While The Doubters Watched From Far Behind.

Don't Be Forecasting Evil Unless It Is What You Can Guard Against. Anxiety Is Good For Nothing If We Can't Turn It Into A Defense.

The Idea Is That Flowing Water Never Goes Stale, So Just Keep On Flowing.

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Where There Is No Style, There Is No Slave. Martial Arts Mean Honestly Expressing Yourself. No Style. No Slave.

The Best Form Of Endurance Exercise Is The Performance Of The Event.

A Man Must Constantly Exceed His Level

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Let Nature Take Its Course And Your Tools Will Strike At The Right Moment.

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Observe What Is With Undivided Awareness.

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To Be Certain, Every Day There Can Be A Revelation Or A New Discovery.

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The Height Of Cultivation Always Runs To Simplicity.

Believe Me That In Every Big Thing Or Achievement There Are Always Obstacles-big Or Small- And The Reaction One Shows To Such Obstacles Is What Counts, Not The Obstacle Itself.

The Key To Immortality Is First Living A Life Worth Remembering.

It Is Better To Live As A Broken Piece Of Jade, Than To Live As A Useless Clay.

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.

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.

The More We Value Things, The Less We Value Ourselves

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I Personally Do Not Believe In The Word Style. Why? Because, Unless There Are Human Beings With Three Arms And Four Legs, Unless We Have Another Group Of Human Beings That Are Structually Different From Us, There Can Be No Different Style Of Fighting.

I Refer To My Hands, Feet And Body As The Tools Of The Trade. The Hands And Feet Must Be Sharpened And Improved Daily To Be Efficient.

Those Who Are Unaware They Are Walking In Darkness Will Never Seek The Light.

I Am Learning To Understand Rather Than Immediately Judge Or To Be Judged.

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Either You Understand Or You Don't, And That Is That.

It's Not The Daily Increase But Daily Decrease. Hack Away At The Unessential.

In Order To Control Myself I Must First Accept Myself By Going With And Not Against My Nature.

Meditation Means To Be Free From All Phenomena And Calmness Means To Be Internally Unperturbed. There Will Be Calmness When One Is Free From External Objects And Is Not Perturbed.

You Need Emotional Content.

Stop Wasting Time In Playing A Role Or A Concept. Instead, Learn To Actualize Yourself, Your Potential.

Jeet Kune Do Favors Formlessness So That It Can Assume All Forms And Since Jeet Kune Do Has No Style, It Can Fit In With All Styles. As A Result, Jeet Kune Do Utilizes All Ways And Is Bound By None And, Likewise, Uses Any Techniques Which Serve Its End.

To See Is To Be Decieved. To Hear Is To Be Lied To. To Feel Is To Believe.

Get Maximum Effect From Minimum Effort.

I Create Opportunities.

I Treasure The Memory Of The Past Misfortunes. It Has Added More To My Bank Of Fortitude.

When You Say That Something Is Impossible, You Have Made It Impossible.

Dedication, Absolute Dedication, Is What Keeps One Ahead!

Jeet Kune Do: It's Just A Name; Don't Fuss Over It. There's No Such Thing As A Style If You Understand The Roots Of Combat.

Learn The Principle, Abide By The Principle, And Dissolve The Principle. In Short, Enter A Mold Without Being Caged In It. Obey The Principle Without Being Bound By It. Learn, Master, And Achieve.

Ultimately The Greatest Help Is Self-help.

Do Not Like, Do Not Dislike; All Will Then Be Clear. Make A Hairbreadth Difference And Heaven And Earth Are Set Apart.

As Long As We Separate This Oneness Into Two We Won't Achieve Realization.

The Less Effort, The Faster And More Powerful You Will Be.

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Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth. To Me, The Function And Duty Of A Quality Human Being Is The Sincere And Honest Development Of One's Potential.

If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves. Moving, Be Like Water. Still, Be Like A Mirror. Respond Like An Echo.

What You Habitually Think Largely Determines What You Will Ultimately Become.

A Self-willed Man Obeys A Different Law, The One Law I, Too, Hold Absolutely Sacred The Human Law In Himself, His Own Individual Will.

Endurance Is Lost Rapidly If One Ceases To Work At Its Maximum.

We Have Great Work Ahead Of Us, And It Needs Devotion And Much, Much Energy. To Grow, To Discover, We Need Involvement.

To Tolerate Is To Insult.

Be Self Aware, Rather Than A Repetitious Robot

A Quality Martial Artist Is Always Ready For Any Move, And Trains Oneself Invincible.

When One Is Not Expressing Himself, He Is Not Free. Thus, He Begins To Struggle And The Struggle Breeds Methodical Routine. Soon, He Is Doing His Methodical Routine As Response Rather Than Responding To What Is.

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 Core Of Understanding Lies In The Individual Mind, And Until That Is Touched Everything Is Uncertain And Superficial. Truth Cannot Be Perceived Until We Come To Fully Understand Our Potential And Ourselves. After All, Knowledge In The Martial Arts Ultimately Means Self-knowledge.

To Change With Change Is The Changeless State

Success Is Not In Reaching The Destination, But In Making The Journey.

The Western Approach To Reality Is Mostly Through Theory, And Theory Begins By Denying Reality - To Talk About Reality, To Go Around Reality, To Catch Anything That Attracts Our Sense-intellect And Abstract It Away From Reality Itself. Thus Philosophy Begins By Saying That The Outside World Is Not A Basic Fact, That Its Existence Can Be Doubted And That Every Proposition In Which The Reality Of The Outside World Is Affirmed Is Not An Evident Proposition But One That Needs To Be Divided, Dissected And Analyzed. It Is To Stand Consciously Aside And Try To Square A Circle.

Sorrows Are Our Best Educator. A Man Can See Further Through A Tear Than A Telescope.

Self-knowledge Involves Relationship. To Know Oneself Is To Study One Self In Action With Another Person. Relationship Is A Process Of Self Evaluation And Self Revelation. Relationship Is The Mirror In Which You Discover Yourself - To Be Is To Be Related.

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.

Independent Inquiry Is Needed In Your Search For Truth, Not Dependence On Anyone Else's View Or A Mere Book.

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.

False Teachers Of The Way Of Life Use Flowery Words.

If Mere Mechanical Efficiency Can Make Everyone A Martial Artist, Then All Is Well. Unfortunately, Combat, Like Freedom, Is Something That Can Not Be Preconceived.

An Intelligent Mind Is An Inquiring Mind. It Is Not Satisfied With Explanation, With Conclusions. Nor Is It A Mind That Believes, Because Belief Is Again Another Form Of Conclusion.

From Form To Formless And From Finite To Infinite

Preparation For Tomorrow Is Hard Work Today.

Every Morning Like A Scholar At His First Class I Prepare A Blank Mind For The Day To Write Upon.

Finally, A Jeet Kune Do Man Who Says Jeet Kune Do Is Exclusively Jeet Kune Do Is Simply Not With It. He Is Still Hung Up On His Self-closing Resistance, In This Case Anchored Down To Reactionary Pattern, And Naturally Is Still Bound By Another Modified Pattern And Can Move Within Its Limits. He Has Not Digested The Simple Fact That Truth Exists Outside All Molds; Pattern And Awareness Is Never Exclusive. Again Let Me Remind You Jeet Kune Do Is Just A Name Used, A Boat To Get One Across, And Once Across It Is To Be Discarded And Not To Be Carried On One's Back.

I Do Not Fear The Man Who Practices 1,000 Kicks One Time Each. I Fear The Man Who Practices 1 Kick 1,000 Times.

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