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Bruce Lee quotes, quotations, sayings

True refinement seeks simplicity.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Even Im not as smart as Einstein, as cool as Brad Pitt , as cute as Lee Hong Ki, as rich as Bill Gates . But I promise you I can love you more than anyone could ever does.
 1004    
Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX.
Batman
 1004    
Sank heaven for leetle curls.
 1004    
I'll let Bruce make his decisions, and I'll be fine with whatever. I'm just happy to be back with the guys.
Eddie Johnson
 1004    
We are happy to be teaming with Jack in the Box. I contacted Bruce and he was excited to be the 2006 corporate sponsor.
Charlene Hunt
 1004    
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)
 1004    
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
Samuel Butler
 1004    
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can have?-Lorrin L. Lee
 1004    
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
 1004    
Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, and it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash! Be water, my friend.
Bruce Lee, TAO of Jeet Kune Do
 1004    
Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.
Manley E. Rogers
 1004    
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
Edward Hoagland
 1004    
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
Sarah Orne Jewett
 1004    
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
 1004    
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
Bruce Lee
 1004    
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
Dalton Trumbo
 1004    
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.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into ''the masses.'' And where is the David who can slay this giant?
Lillian Smith
 1004    
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farrar
 1004    
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
 1004    
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
 1004    
The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
Barbara Ehrenreich
 1004    
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.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.
Charles Dickens
 1004    
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
Edward Hoagland
 1004    
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
As you think, so shall you become.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
 1004    
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
 1004    
Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.
Blaine Lee
 1004    
Why did I fall for him? He had a Tommy Lee Jones smile and sounded like Peter O'Toole with a double dose of testosterone and a southern accent.
Lollie McLain
 1004    
You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
Bill Lee
 1004    
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
 1004    


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