BRUCE LEE QUOTES IV

Hong Kong American martial artist & actor (1940-1973)

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

BRUCE LEE

Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

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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 spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Eat. This time you're eating paper. The next time it's going to be glass.

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The Chinese Connection


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.

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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

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Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.

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The Tao of Gung Fu


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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Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

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Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

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Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

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The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee

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If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

BRUCE LEE

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

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