In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.
BRUCE LEEAny technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
More Bruce Lee Quotes
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Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
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The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
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Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
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Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
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When one has no form, one can be all forms.
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Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.
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To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
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If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.
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To live is to express oneself freely.
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In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?
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Learn it all, then forget it all.
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Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.
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Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
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Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.
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Your state of mind is everything.
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You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.
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Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
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Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.
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Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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When one is not expressing himself, he is not free.
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The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
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