Bruce Lee Famous Quotes
"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."
"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."
"As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization."
"To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions."
"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."
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
True refinement seeks simplicity.
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
"If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee Quotations
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him."
Seneca
"The wise man speaks of what he sees, the idiot of what he hears."
Arabic Proverb
"Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me."
Chitto Harjo
"We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity."
Kabbalah
"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady."
Richard Milhous Nixon
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance."
H Jackson Browne
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Aldous Huxley
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
Norman Mailer
One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
William Safire