Bruce Lee Quotes About Growth
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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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Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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.
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I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
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The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.
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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.
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Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
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A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
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Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
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When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.
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It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
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People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.
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In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
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As you think, so shall you become.
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Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
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