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Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
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.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality in your own mind!
I'm not in
this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world
to live up to mine.
If you
always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It
will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.
There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond
them.
Love is
like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows
older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and
unquenchable.
Man, the
living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than
any established style or system.
Absorb what is useful, Discard
what is not, Add what is uniquely your own
Knowing is not enough; we must
apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Simplicity is the last step of
art.
A teacher is never a giver of
truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must
find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.
When an opportunity in a fight
presents itself, "I" don't hit, "it" hits all by
itself.
Empty your mind. Become
formless and shapeless like water. When water is poured into a cup, it
becomes the cup. When water is poured into a teapot, it becomes the
teapot. Be water, my friend.
To know oneself is to study
oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the
truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away
the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so
forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this
silence, you will see totally and freshly.
I fear not the man who has
practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one
kick 10,000 times.
The key to immortality is
first living a life worth remembering.
Don't think, feel! It is like
a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or
you will miss all that heavenly glory.
A quick temper will make a
fool of you soon enough.
I don't believe in different
ways of fighting now, I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs
- then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all
have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only
one way of fighting and that is no way.
If you always put limits on
what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the
rest of your life. It'll spread over into your work, into your
mortality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are
plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it
kills you, it kills you.
Notice that
the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow
survives by bending with the wind.
Take no
thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or
against.
The future
looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big
possibilities. Like the song says, "We've just begun."
The less
effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not,
Add what is uniquely your own
Knowing
is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Whilst teaching a young
student in Enter The Dragon, and after telling him "hit me"
twice, (both were feeble kicks) he then grabs the student, tells him you
must learn to concentrate, points to the sky (whilst twisting his head
skywards) and quotes "It is like a finger pointing away to the
moon" (at which point he pauses and slaps the student on the
forehead) and continues... "DON'T concentrate on the finger, or you
will miss all the heavenly glory"
There is no fixed teaching.
All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Jeet Kune Do - It is having no
limitation as limitation
Jeet Kune Do uses no way as
way The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper
execution of all physical action.
The aim of art is to project
an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the
deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to
enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized
within the total framework of an ideal world.
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
There is no fixed teaching.
All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
Jeet Kune Do - It is having no
limitation as limitation
Jeet Kune Do uses no way as
way The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper
execution of all physical action.
The aim of art is to project
an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the
deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to
enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized
within the total framework of an ideal world.
I hope martial artists are
more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different
decorative branches, flowers or leaves.