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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with B >> Quotes By Bruce Lee |
| Quote #1: | "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, 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." |
| Quote #2: | "When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit--it hits all by itself." |
| Quote #3: | "As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization." |
| Quote #4: | "To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions." |
| Quote #5: | "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." |
| Quote #6: | "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." |
| Quote #7: | "Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do." |
| Quote #8: | "A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence." |
| Quote #9: | "True refinement seeks simplicity." |
| Quote #10: | "Ideas are the beginning of all achievement." |
| Quote #11: | "If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that." |
| Quote #12: | "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at." |
| Quote #13: | "One great cause of failure is lack of concentration." |
| Quote #14: | "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." |
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