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Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way is a collection of Bruce Lee's thoughts and teachings on martial arts. It delves into the principles and methods of his innovative fighting style, Jeet Kune Do, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of Lee's approach to combat and self-improvement.
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“To tolerate is to insult.”
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“False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.”
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“Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!”
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“Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.”
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“It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.”
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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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“Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.”
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“What Is, is more important than What Should Be.”
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“When you freely express, you are the total style.”
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“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”
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“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
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“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”
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“Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.”
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“Boards don't hit back.”
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“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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“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.”
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“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
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“Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.”
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“After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”
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“Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.”
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“A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.”
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“To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.”
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“To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.”
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“Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.”
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“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”
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“Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.”
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“You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.”
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“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”
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“To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
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“To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.”
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“You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.”
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“Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.”
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“Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.”
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“Your state of mind is everything.”
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“The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?”
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“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”
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“An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.”
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“To change with change is the changeless state”
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“Knowing is not enough, You must apply”
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“The poorer we are
inwardly,
the more we try to
enrich ourselves
outwardly.”
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“Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?”
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“Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.”
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