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The Founder Of Any Branch Must Be More Ingenious Than The Common Man. However, If His Achievement Is Not Carried On By Disciples Of The Same Ingenuity, Then Things Will Only Become Formalized And Get Stuck In A Cul-de-sac; Whereby Breakthrough And Progress Will Be Almost Impossible.

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The Founder Of Any Branch Must Be More Ingenious Than The Common Man. However, If His Achievement Is Not Carried On By Disciples Of The Same Ingenuity, Then Things Will Only Become Formalized And Get Stuck In A Cul-de-sac; Whereby Breakthrough And Progress Will Be Almost Impossible.

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The Past Is An Illusion. You Must Learn To Live In The Present And Accept Yourself For What You Are Now. What You Lack In Flexibility And Agility You Must Make Up With Knowledge And Constant Practice.

A Self-willed Man Has No Other Aim Than His Own Growth.

A Goal Is Not Always Meant To Be Reached, It Often Serves Simply As Something To Aim At.

In The Middle Of Chaos Lies Opportunity.

Conditioning Obstructs Our View Of Reality. We Do Not See It In Its Suchness Because Of Our Indoctrination, Crooked And Twisted.

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Know The Difference Between A Catastrophe And An Inconvenience. - To Realize That It's Just An Inconvenience, That It Is Not A Catastrophe, But Just An Unpleasantness, Is Part Of Coming Into Your Own, Part Of Waking Up.

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If People Say Jeet Kune Do Is Different From This Or From That, Then Let The Name Of Jeet Kune Do Be Wiped Out, For That Is What It Is, Just A Name. Please Don't Fuss Over It.

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The Mind Is Like A Fertile Garden In Which Anything That Is Planted, Flowers Or Weeds, Will Grow.

Willing Is Not Enough, One Must Apply.

Art Reaches Its Greatest Peak When Devoid Of Self-consciousness. Freedom Discovers Man The Moment He Loses Concern Over What Impression He Is Making Or About To Make.

Evaluation By Others Is Not A Guide For Me.

To Be Honest To Oneself, And That Is Very Hard To Do.

I Hope Martial Artists Are More Interested In The Root Of Martial Arts And Not The Different Decorative Branches, Flowers Or Leaves. It Is Futile To Argue As To Which Leaf, Which Design Of Branches, Or Which Attractive Flower You Like; When You Understand The Root, You Understand All Its Blossoming.

If You Love Life, Don't Waste Time, For Time Is What Life Is Made Up Of.

There Are No Limits. There Are Only Plateaus, And You Must Not Stay There, You Must Go Beyond Them.

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

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Dedication, Absolute Dedication, Is What Keeps One Ahead. A Sort Of Indomitable Obsessive Dedication And The Realization That There Is No End Or Limit To This Because Life Is Simply An Ever-growing Process, An Ever-renewing Process.

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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.

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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He Who Wants To Succeed Should Learn How To Fight, To Strive And To Suffer. You Can Acquire A Lot In Life, If You Are Prepared To Give Up A Lot To Get It.

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.

I Don't Want To Do Anything Halfway. It Has To Be Perfect.

Art Is The Way To The Absolute And To The Essence Of Human Life. The Aim Of Art Is Not The One-sided Promotion Of Spirit, Soul And Senses, But The Opening Of All Human Capacities – Thought, Feeling, Will – To The Life Rhythm Of The World Of Nature. So Will The Voiceless Voice Be Heard And The Self Be Brought Into Harmony With It.

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.

I'm Not A Master. I'm A Student-master, Meaning That I Have The Knowledge Of A Master And The Expertise Of A Master, But I'm Still Learning. So I'm A Student-master. I Don't Believe In The Word 'master.' I Consider The Master As Such When They Close The Casket.

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Do Not Have An Attitude, Open Yourself And Focus Yourself And Express Yourself. Reject External Form That Fails To Express Internal Reality.

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

When You Fight, If It Is A Real Fight, Use Every Tool That You Have, Use Your Whole Body. Use Your Fists, Your Legs, Your Fingers, Your Head If You Have To, And Hit Them In Every Vulnerable Spot, The Balls, The Eyes Etc. To Win.

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Taoist Philosophy Is Essentially Monistic. Matter And Energy, Yang And Yin, Heaven And Earth, Are Conceived Of As Essentially One Or As Two Coexistent Poles Of One Indivisible Whole.

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

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.

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

All Fixed Set Patterns Are Incapable Of Adaptability Or Pliability. The Truth Is Outside Of All Fixed Patterns.

When You Point To The Moon, What Do You See In Front Of Your Finger; Your Task Is To Feel, Not To Think, When You Can Understand That The Lesson Will Be Learned.

If You Don't Want To Slip Up Tomorrow, Speak The Truth Today.

Life Itself Is Your Teacher, And You Are In A State Of Constant Learning.

The More Complicated And Restricted The Method, The Less Opportunity For Expression Of One's Original Sense Of Freedom.

Voidness Is That Which Stands Right In The Middle Between This And That. The Void Is All-inclusive, Having No Opposite--there Is Nothing Which It Excludes Or Opposes. It Is Living Void, Because All Forms Come Out Of It And Whoever Realizes The Void Is Filled With Life And Power And The Love Of All Beings.

If Your Opponent Is At A Distance, Kick Him In The Groin. If He Gets Close, Poke Him In The Eyes, Bring Up Your Knee, Pop Him With An Elbow, Dig A Corkscrew Punch To His Stomach.

Give Recognition Where It Is Due. Compliments Stimulate More Effort And Desire To Improve. Be Generous With Honest Praising.

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

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

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The Future Looks Extremely Bright Indeed, With Lots Of Possibilities Ahead -- Big Possibilities. Like The Song Says, We've Just Begun.

One Should Be In Harmony With, Not In Opposition To, The Strength And Force Of The Opposition. This Means That One Should Do Nothing That Is Not Natural Or Spontaneous; The Important Thing Is Not To Strain In Any Way.

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.

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.

To Me, Ultimately, Martial Arts Means Honestly Expressing Yourself.

Express Yourself

Simplicity Is The Key To Brilliance.

Inspirational Life

Live A Life Worth Remembering.

The Attitude, 'you Can Win If You Want To Badly Enough,' Means That The Will To Win Is Constant. No Amount Of Punishment, No Amount Of Effort, No Condition Is Too 'tough' To Take In Order To Win. Such An Attitude Can Be Developed Only If Winning Is Closely Tied To The Practitioner's Ideals And Dreams.

We Should Devote Ourselves To Being Self-sufficient And Must Not Depend Upon The External Ratings By Others For Our Happiness.

Practice Makes Perfect. After A Long Time Of Practicing, Our Work Will Become Natural, Skillfull, Swift, And Steady.

Don’t Indulge In Any Unnecessary, Sophisticated Moves

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

Awareness Is Without Choice, Without Demand, Without Anxiety; In That State Of Mind, There Is Perception.

Long-term Consistency Trumps Short-term Intensity.

To Know Oneself Is To Study Oneself In Action With Another Person.

The Point Is The Doing Of Them Rather Than The Accomplishments . There Is No Actor But The Action; There Is No Experiencer But The Experience.

Fear Comes From Uncertainty; We Can Eliminate The Fear Within Us When We Know Ourselves Better. As The Great Sun Tzu Said: “when You Know Yourself And Your Opponent, You Will Win Every Time. When You Know Yourself But Not Your Opponent, You Will Win One And Lose One. However, When You Do Not Know Yourself Or Your Opponent, You Will Be Imperiled Every Time.

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

Observe What Is With Undivided Awareness.

It Is Not What Happens That Is Success Or Failure, But What It Does To The Heart Of Man.

Man, He Is Constantly Growing And When He Is Bound By A Set Pattern Of Ideas Or Way Of Doing Things, That's When He Stops Growing

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.

'what Is' Is More Important Than 'what Should Be.' Too Many People Are Looking At 'what Is' From A Position Of Thinking 'what Should Be'.

Water Can Flow, Or It Can Crash. Be Water, My Friend.

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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.

Forget About Winning And Losing; Forget About Pride And Pain. Let Your Opponent Graze Your Skin And You Smash Into His Flesh; Let Him Smash Into Your Flesh And You Fracture His Bones; Let Him Fracture Your Bones And You Take His Life! Do Not Be Concerned With Escaping Safely- Lay Your Life Before Him!!

Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own.

Sincere Thought Means Thought Of Concentration (quiet Awareness). The Thought Of A Distracted Mind Cannot Be Sincere

Let Yourself Go With Dis-ease, Be With It, And Keep It Company. This Is The Way To Be Rid Of It.

What Comes After Victory? Why Do People Value Victory So Much? What Is 'glory'? What Kind Of Victory Is 'glorious'?

Recognizing That The Power Of Will Is The Supreme Court Over All Other Departments Of My Mind, I Will Exercise Daily When I Need The Urge To Act For Any Purpose; And I Will Form Habits Designed To Bring The Power Of My Will Into Action At Least Once Daily.

I Think Of Myself As A Human Being.

No Matter What, You Must Let Your Inner Light Guide You Out Of The Darkness.

Remember, Life Is A Journey, Not A Destination.

You Know What I Want To Think Of Myself? As A Human Being. Because, I Mean I Don't Want To Be Like "as Confucius Say," But Under The Sky, Under The Heavens There Is But One Family. It Just So Happens Man That People Are Different.

Use Karate, Judo, Aikido, Or Any Style To Build Your Counter-offensive. It Will Be Interesting!

Remember My Friend To Enjoy Your Planning As Well As Your Accomplishment, For Life Is Too Short For Negative Energy.

Life Is Too Short

A Good Fighter Must Sense Rather Than Perceive His Chance To Strike.

We Shall Find The Answer When We Examine The Problem, The Problem Is Never Apart From The Answer, The Problem Is The Answer, Understanding The Problem Dissolves The Problem.

Belts Are Only Good For Holding Up Your Pants

To Tolerate Is To Insult.

There Is "what Is" Only When There Is No Comparing And To Live With "what Is" Is To Be Peaceful.

Give Up Thinking As Though Not Giving It Up. Observe Techniques As Though Not Observing.

Love Is Like A Friendship Caught On Fire. In The Beginning A Flame, Very Pretty, Often Hot And Fierce, But Still Only Light And Flickering. As Love Grows Older, Our Hearts Mature And Our Love Becomes As Coals, Deep-burning And Unquenchable.

Real Living Is Living For Others.

We Have More Faith In What We Imitate Than In What We Create

To Take Responsibility For One's Own Actions, Good And Bad, Is Something Else.

Taking Responsibility

Fluidity Is The Way To An Empty Mind. You Must Free Your Ambitious Mind And Learn The Art Of Dying.

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

The Knowledge And Skills You Have Achieved Are Meant To Be Forgotten So You Can Float Comfortably In Emptiness, Without Obstruction.

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.

Life Is Wide, Limitless. There Is No Border, No Frontier.

Reality Is Apparent When One Ceases To Compare.

The Biggest Adversary In Our Life Is Ourselves. We Are What We Are, In A Sense, Because Of The Dominating Thoughts We Allow To Gather In Our Head. All Concepts Of Self-improvement, All Actions And Paths We Take, Relate Solely To Our Abstract Image Of Ourselves. Life Is Limited Only By How We Really See Ourselves And Feel About Our Being. A Great Deal Of Pure Self-knowledge And Inner Understanding Allows Us To Lay An All-important Foundation For The Structure Of Our Life From Which We Can Perceive And Take The Right Avenues.

Defeat Is Not Defeat Unless Accepted As A Reality-in Your Own Mind.

Never Take Your Eyes Off Your Opponent, Even When You Bow.

Never Waste Energy On Worries Or Negative Thoughts, All Problems Are Brought Into Existence -drop Them.

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

Do Not Pray For An Easy Life, Pray For The Strength To Endure A Difficult One

I Fear Not The Man Who Has Practiced 10,000 Kicks Once, But I Fear The Man Who Has Practiced One Kick 10,000 Times.

As You Think, You Shall Become

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?

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.

If I Tell You I'm Good, Probably You Will Say I'm Boasting. But If I Tell You I'm Not Good, You'll Know I'm Lying.

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

Practice All Movements Slow And Fast, Soft And Hard; The Effectiveness Of Jeet Kune-do Depends On Split-second Timing And Reflexive Action, Which Can Be Achieved Only Through Repetitious Practice.

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.

It Is Not A Shame To Be Knocked Down By Other People. The Important Thing Is To Ask When You're Being Knocked Down, 'why Am I Being Knocked Down?' If A Person Can Reflect In This Way, Then There Is Hope For This Person.

Its Not What Happens That Counts... It's How You React.

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

To Realize Freedom The Mind Has To Learn To Look At Life, Which Is A Vast Movement, Without The Bondage Of Time , For Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness Care For Watching, But Don't Stop And Interpret "i Am Free," Then You're Living In A Memory Of Something That Has Gone Before.

The Past Is No More; The Future Not Yet. Nothing Exists Except The Here And Now. Our Grand Business Is Not To See What Lies Dimly At A Distance, But To Do What Lies Clearly At Our Hands.

Remember No Man Is Really Defeated Unless He Is Discouraged.

The More Aware You Become, The More You Shed From Day To Day What You Have Learned So That Your Mind Is Always Fresh And Uncontaminated By Previous Conditioning.

Bring The Mind To A Sharp Focus And Make It Alert So That It Can Immediately Intuit Truth, Which Is Everywhere.

How Can There Be Methods And Systems To Arrive At Something That Is Living? To That Which Is Static, Fixed, Dead, There Can Be A Way, A Definite Path, But Not To That Which Is Living. Do Not Reduce Reality To A Static Thing And Then Invent Methods To Reach It. ...truth Has No Path. Truth Is Living And, Therefore, Changing. It Has No Resting Place, No Form, No Organized Institution, No Philosophy. When You See That, You Will Understand That This Living Thing Is Also What You Are. You Cannot Express And Be Alive Through Static, Put-together Form, Through Stylized Movement.

You Will Never Learn Anything New Unless You Are Ready To Accept Yourself With Your Limitations. You Must Accept The Fact That You Are Capable In Some Directions And Limited In Others, And You Must Develop Your Capabilities.

Accepting Yourself

Training For Strength And Flexibility Is A Must. You Must Use It To Support Your Techniques. Techniques Alone Are No Good If You Don't Support Them With Strength And Flexibility.

My Style? You Can Call It The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting.

If There Is Always Light, You Don’t Experience Light Anymore. You Have To Have The Rhythm Of Light And Darkness.

Here I Am As A Human Being...how Can I Express Myself, Totally And Completely?

Be Like Water Making Its Way Through Cracks. Do Not Be Assertive, But Adjust To The Object, And You Shall Find A Way Round Or Through It. If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves.

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tend But Ready, Not Thinking But Jet Not Dreaming. Ready For Whatever May Come.

Learning Is A Constant Process Of Discovery - A Process Without End.

Understanding Requires Not Just A Moment Of Perception, But A Continuous Awareness, A Continuous State Of Inquiry Without Conclusion

Time Means A Lot To Me Because, You See, I, Too, Am Also A Learner And Am Often Lost In The Joy Of Forever Developing And Simplifying. If You Love Life, Don't Waste Time, For Time Is What Life Is Made Up Of.

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.

Can You Look At A Situation Without Naming It? Naming It, Making It A Word, Causes Fear.

Seek Freedom From The Conformity Of Styles

Obey The Principles Without Being Bound By Them.

Always Be Yourself, Express Yourself, Have Faith In Yourself, Do Not Go Out And Look For A Successful Personality And Duplicate It.

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.

More And More I Believe In The Fact That You Have Two Hands And Two Legs, And The Thing Is How To Make Good Use Of Yourself - And That's About It.

There’s Only One Basic Principle Of Self-defense- You Must Apply The Most Effective Weapon, As Soon As Possible, To The Most Vulnerable Target.

When You Feel Pain, You Know That You Are Still Alive.

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

I Don't Believe In Different Ways Of Fighting Now. I Mean, Unless Human Beings Have 3 Arms And 3 Legs, Then We Will Have A Different Way Of Fighting. But Basically We All Have Two Arms And Two Legs So That Is Why I Believe There Should Be Only One Way Of Fighting And That Is No Way.

If You Think A Thing Is Impossible,you'll Only Make It Impossible.

To Spend Time Is To Pass It In A Specified Manner. To Waste Time Is To Expend It Thoughtlessly Or Carelessly. We All Have Time To Either Spend Or Waste And It Is Our Decision What To Do With It. But Once Passed, It Is Gone Forever.

Remember, You Are Expressing The Techniques And Not Doing The Techniques.

The Meaning Of Life Is That It Is To Be Lived.

Meaning Of Life

Things Live By Moving And Gain Strength As They Go.

Out Of Chaos, Find Simplicity, From Discord, Find Harmony.

True Observation Begins When Devoid Of Set Patterns; Freedom Of Expression Occurs When One Is Beyond System.

Freedom Of Expression

True Refinement Seeks Simplicity.

Martial Arts, Like Any Art, Is An Unrestricted Athletic Expression Of An Individual Soul.

Turn Your Sparring Into Play - But Always Play Seriously.

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

Self Evaluation

One Will Never Get Any More Than He Thinks He Can Get. You Have What It Takes. Look Back And See Your Progress - Damn The Torpedo, Full Speed Ahead!

I'm Moving And Not Moving At All. I'm Like The Moon Underneath The Waves That Ever Go On Rolling And Rocking. It Is Not, "i Am Doing This," But Rather, An Inner Realization That "this Is Happening Through Me," Or "it Is Doing This For Me." The Consciousness Of Self Is The Greatest Hindrance To The Proper Execution Of All Physical Action.

Using No Way As A Way, Having No Limitation As Limitation.

What Is, Is More Important Than What Should Be.

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