Bruce Lee
Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist
Lived from: 1940 - 1973
Category: Movie | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 27 november 1940 Died: 20 july 1973
Quotes 41 till 60 of 66.
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
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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.
Striking Thoughts (2000)― Bruce Lee -
The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh― Bruce Lee -
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
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The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6― Bruce Lee -
The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6― Bruce Lee -
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Striking Thoughts (2000)― Bruce Lee -
The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
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The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6― Bruce Lee -
There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
As quoted in The Art of Expressing the Human Body (1998)― Bruce Lee -
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.
Striking Thoughts (2000)― Bruce Lee -
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)― Bruce Lee -
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
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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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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.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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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. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.
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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at what is from a position of thinking what should be.
Striking Thoughts (2000)― Bruce Lee
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