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Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee QUOTES

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee QUOTES

1 " When you have mastery in combat, you not only meet a fight with composure and skill, you become an artist of movement, expressing yourself powerfully in the immediate, unfolding present with absolute freedom and certainty. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

2 " To live is to express oneself freely in creation. Creation, I must say, is not a fixed something. At best, Bruce Lee presents a possible direction, and nothing more. You are free to make your own choice and express your instinctive potentiality. I am actualizing myself daily to be an artist of life! In life, what can you ask for but to fulfill your potential and be real! "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

3 " So if we want to fulfill our human potential, then we can’t let ourselves be complacent or stopped either—we have to find our way forward and keep being replenished again and again. And in order to find our way, we need to be paying attention. We need to be aware of what is happening all around us. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

4 " My father considered himself fully weaponized, not only because he was a skilled fighter and in peak shape, but because he knew how to harness his will. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

5 " When your personal safety or very life is on the line, to remain alert, mobile, and skillful is an immense feat of self-mastery "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

6 " When your personal safety or very life is on the line, to remain alert, mobile, and skillful is an immense feat of self-mastery. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

7 " It could be in a personal conversation or a pitch meeting or on the tennis court or in a fight, where you masterfully kept your cool because you could see the whole situation so clearly. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

8 " Proficiency in martial arts is the practice of keeping centered and skillfully responsive under the direst of circumstances: the threat of physical harm. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

9 " At one point he said "Some may not believe it, but I spent hours perfecting whatever I did." He worked not only on sculpting the body but at shaping his mind, educating himself, evolving his practices, developing his potential. He also worked at the little things, like having beautiful handwriting, writing and speaking grammatically well, developing a colloquial understanding of English through joke-telling, learning how to direct a film - the list goes on and on. And as a result, he created a legacy that continues to be relevant forty-seven years after his death. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

10 " When your purpose is simply to be the most high-functioning and joyful version of you that you can be, then every moment can be an opportunity to fulfill your purpose, and the journey becomes so much more exciting. You now have your purpose no matter what. Even the difficulties become more manageable when we are committed to expressing the truth of who we are. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

11 " It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked.” It is not to deny or bury or go around your feelings or your thoughts about those feelings. It is to feel them, acknowledge them, and work with them—to understand what they are trying to tell you about you, about the situation—to let them show you where there is more work to be done without letting them overwhelm, unbalance, or trap you. They have information for you. Take the information, say thank you, and keep going. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

12 " I am on a path of understanding more and more about myself every day and shifting my perspective just like my father did. I’m becoming more conscious about what I’m ignoring or denying, and my learning process has become faster, my struggles fewer and less intense. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

13 " People have to grow through skillful frustrations, otherwise they have no incentive to develop their own means and ways of coping with the world. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

14 " So no matter if your color is black or white, red or blue, I can still make friends with you without any barrier. In saying that “everyone under the sun is a member of a universal family,” you may think that I am idealistic. But if anyone still believes in things like racial differences, I think they are too narrow. Perhaps they still do not understand love. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

15 " I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine…. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

16 " Life is not a competition; it's a cocreation. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

17 " I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once. But I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

18 " People have to go through skillful frustrations, otherwise they have no incentive to develop their own means and ways of coping with the world. - Bruce Lee "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

19 " Do not be tense, but ready; not thinking, but not dreaming; not being set, but flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware, and alert; ready for whatever may come.… "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

20 " Water may flow swiftly or it may flow slowly, but its purpose is inexorable, its destiny sure. "

― , Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee