Bruce Lee (1940-1973)

Quotes

• The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

• When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.

• Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.

• Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

• It is like a finger pointing toward the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

• True refinement seeks simplicity.

• To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

• Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.

• The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

• The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

• To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.

• You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash, drip, flow...be water my friend.

• Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

• Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

• I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

• If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

• Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.