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Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
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.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality in your own mind!
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
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 becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Simplicity is the last step of art.
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.
When an opportunity in a fight presents itself, “I” don’t hit, “it” hits all by itself.
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.
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 schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
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.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
I don’t believe in different ways of fighting now, I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs - then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.
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 being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, “We’ve just begun.”
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Whilst teaching a young student in Enter The Dragon, and after telling him “hit me” twice, (both were feeble kicks) he then grabs the student, tells him you must learn to concentrate, points to the sky (whilst twisting his head skywards) and quotes “It is like a finger pointing away to the moon” (at which point he pauses and slaps the student on the forehead) and continues… “DON’T concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory”
There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Jeet Kune Do - It is having no limitation as limitation
Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
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.
You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Jeet Kune Do - It is having no limitation as limitation
Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.
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.
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
