Bruce Lee Zitate

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„Ich bin nicht auf dieser Welt, um deine Erwartungen zu erfüllen, und du bist nicht auf dieser Welt, um meine zu erfüllen.“

„Fürchte dich nicht vor dem Scheitern. - Nicht Misserfolg, sondern geringes Ziel ist das Verbrechen. Bei großen Versuchen ist es herrlich, sogar zu scheitern.“

„Ein Weiser kann von einer dummen Frage mehr lernen, als ein Dummer von einer weisen Antwort.“

„Balancieren Sie Ihre Gedanken mit Aktion. - Wenn Sie zu viel Zeit damit verbringen, über etwas nachzudenken, werden Sie es nie schaffen.“

„Sei glücklich, aber niemals zufrieden.“

„Was IST ist wichtiger als was sein SOLLTE. Es gibt zu viele Menschen, die “das, was ist” aus einer Perspektive des “was sein sollte” sehen … Umstände? Zur Hölle mit den Umständen. Ich erschaffe Möglichkeiten.“

„Fehler sind immer zu verzeihen, wenn man den Mut hat, diese auch zuzugeben.“

„Wenn Du Dir immer Grenzen setzt, sei es im Training oder sonstwo, wird es sich auf andere Bereiche, auf Deine Arbeit, Dein Leben ausweiten. Es gibt keine Grenzen. Es gibt nur Plaeaus. Und Du darfst dort nicht bleiben, Du musst sie durchbrechen.“

„Ich habe keine Angst vor dem Mann, der 10.000 Kicks einmal geübt hat, aber ich fürchte mich vor dem, der einen Kick 10.000 mal geübt hat.“

„Ein Ziel ist nicht immer dazu bestimmt, erreicht zu werden. Es dient oft einfach nur als etwas, das man anstrebt.“

“Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.”

“If you think a thing is impossible, you'll only make it impossible.”

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

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

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

“You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on?”

“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”

“Don't think, feel…. it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!”

“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.”

“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.”

“Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”

“Possession of anything begins in the mind.”

“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”

“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”

“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- to be is to be related.”

“If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.”

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”

“Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!”

“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”

“water is fearless, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot, water can flow drip, creap, or crash!”

“The word "superstar" is an ilusion”

“Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.”

“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.”

“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”