Bruce Lee
The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.Collection: Mind
To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.Collection: Real
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.Collection: Regret
Be a practical dreamer backed by action.Collection: Dreamer
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.Collection: Determination
Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.Collection: Believe
Never waste energy on worries or negative thoughts, all problems are brought into existence -drop them.Collection: Worry
Observe what is with undivided awareness.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Inspirational
A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.Collection: Men
To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.Collection: Honest
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.Collection: Looks
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.Collection: Power
Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.Collection: Flow
The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.Collection: Art
Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.Collection: Five Senses
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.Collection: Opportunity
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.Collection: Art
Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.Collection: Life
My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.Collection: Real
For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.Collection: Inspirational
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.Collection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Decision
Get maximum effect from minimum effort.Collection: Effort
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.Collection: Dream
True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.Collection: Expression
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.Collection: Inspirational
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.Collection: Inspirational
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robotCollection: Inspiring
Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.Collection: Real
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Believe
To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.Collection: Responsibility
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!Collection: Chance
For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.Collection: Moving
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.Collection: Practice
Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.Collection: Death
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself.Collection: Dream
Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.Collection: Guy
Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.Collection: Training
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.Collection: Art
Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.Collection: Reality
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!!Collection: Life
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.Collection: Strong
The reward is found in the work.Collection: Rewards
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Army
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.Collection: Art
Seek freedom from the conformity of stylesCollection: Style