“In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than "doing."”

—  Bruce Lee

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 117

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