Poll: Bruce Lee Words of Wisdom

Results of 744 votes:

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   Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury (1972)

    

   "Empty your mind. Become formless and shapeless like water. When water is poured into a cup, it becomes the cup. When water is poured into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water, my friend&quo…
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   "A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst"
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   Bruce Lee

    

   "Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"
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   Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

    

   "Simplicity is the last step of art"
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   Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury (1972)

    

   "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering"
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   Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury (1972)

    

   " fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times"
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   "A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."
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   "There's no challenge in breaking a board. Boards don't hit back"
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   Bruce Lee in The Big Boss (1971)

    

   "Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory"
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    Bruce Lee as 'Kato' on the set of "The Green Hornet" c. 1966

     

    "A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough"
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    Bruce Lee circa 1965

     

    "If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread over into your work, into your mortality, into your entire bein…
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    Bruce Lee in Game of Death (1978)

     

    "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or s…
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    Bruce Lee, with his wife and son Brandon Lee circa 1967

     

    "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 be…
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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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    "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
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    Bruce Lee in Game of Death (1978)

     

    "The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups."
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    Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

     

    "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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    Bruce Lee

     

    "First of all, the word superstar really turns me off--and I'll tell you why. The word "star" man, it's an illusion. it's something what the public calls you. You should look upon onese…
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    "You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to sound like ask Confucius, sayyyyyy--(joking) but under the sky, under the heaven, man, there is but one…
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    Bruce Lee, Steve McQueen, and Fumio Demura in The Real Miyagi (2015)

     

    "I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life."