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Bruce Lee
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Lee Jun-fan, known professionally as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong and American actor, martial artist, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen.
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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
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“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
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“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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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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“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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“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
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“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
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“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
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“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
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“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
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“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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“The doubters said, "Man can not fly", the doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try", and finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.”
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“The doubters said, "Man can not fly", the doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try", and finally soared in the morning glow while non-believers watched from below.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
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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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“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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“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
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“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
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“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
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“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
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“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”
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“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”
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“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!!”
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“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!!”
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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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“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
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“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”
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“Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.”
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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 either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
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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 either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”
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“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
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“Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.”
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“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
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“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
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“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
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“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
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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.”
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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.”
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“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
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“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
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“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
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“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”
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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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“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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“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
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“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
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“Boards don't hit back.”
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“Boards don't hit back.”
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“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
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“Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student.”
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“Real living is living for others.”
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“Real living is living for others.”
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