Bruce Lee
The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.Collection: Art
Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated movesCollection: Moving
The word "superstar" is an ilusionCollection: Superstar
When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!Collection: Baby
Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.Collection: Self
Willing is not enough, one must apply.Collection: Enough
Efficiency is anything that scores.Collection: Efficiency
Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess.Collection: Moving
Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.Collection: Powerful
It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.Collection: Men
When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.Collection: Real
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competitionCollection: Ambition
Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly. I think life is a process. Through the ages, the end of heroes is the same as ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man. But when we are still alive, we have to understand ourselves, discover ourselves and express ourselves. In this way, we can progress, but we may not be successful.Collection: Life
Be like water, my friend.Collection: Water
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 beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law.Collection: Believe
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.Collection: Art
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.Collection: Inspiring
The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.Collection: Dream
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.Collection: Art
If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.Collection: Distance
Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.Collection: Lying
Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?Collection: Here I Am
Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.Collection: Moving
Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.Collection: Tools
I create opportunities.Collection: Opportunity
Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.Collection: Needs
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.Collection: Simplicity
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.Collection: Running
Styles tend to not only separate men - because they have their own doctrines and then the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change. But if you do not have a style, if you just say: Well, here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely? Now, that way you won't create a style, because style is a crystallization . That way, it's a process of continuing growth.Collection: Men
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.Collection: Inspirational
There are too many stars and too few actors.Collection: Stars
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.Collection: Philosophical
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.Collection: Real
Belts are only good for holding up your pantsCollection: Pants
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.Collection: Strength
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.Collection: Book
A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.Collection: Strong
Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.Collection: Gun
It is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky..but to express oneself honestly not lying to oneself, now that my friend is very hard to doCollection: Lying
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.Collection: Inspiring
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.Collection: Motivational
Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.Collection: Art
Learn it all, then forget it all.Collection: Workout
Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!Collection: Art
A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.Collection: Pride
Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.Collection: Persistence
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.Collection: Life
Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.Collection: Defined