Bruce Lee: Trending quotes (page 2)

“When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

Bruce Lee

Radio interview with Ted Thomas (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la_D3oF5H_A

Personality , Faith , Learning , Success

“Revolutionize your mind. ”

Bruce Lee

“None whatsoever.”

Bruce Lee

When asked what major religion he was affiliated with in 1972 by journalist Alex Ben Block, p. 128
The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)

“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

Bruce Lee

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 30

“As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.”

Bruce Lee

Part 5 "On training in Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

Effort , Parting , Patience

“The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he."

Life , Secret , Heart

“Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 11

“When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!”

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)

Fight , Parting , Baby , Training

“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”

Bruce Lee

Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

Truth

“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 42

“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.”

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)

People , Family , Thinking

“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.”

Bruce Lee

Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

Universe

“The change is from inner to outer. — We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 120

Change

“A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred — the human law in himself, his own individual will.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19

Law

“An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.”

Bruce Lee

Part 5 "On training in Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 23

Light

“Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 23

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

Bruce Lee

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 64

Love

“Reality is being itself. — It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the "isness" of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense — not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 19

Reality , Sense , Freedom

“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality — to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”

Bruce Lee

Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 15 - 16

World , Reality , Sense