Born: November 27, 1940Died: July 20, 1973Founder of: Jeet Kune Do
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Movie Star
“You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese star in the world.”
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No limits
“If you always put limits 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.”
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Martial Arts
“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.”
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Making Waves
“No thinking, no reflecting—perfect emptiness, yet therein something moves, following its own course—the moon in the stream.”
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New Heights
“Nothingness cannot be confined, the softest thing cannot be snapped.”
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Take Life Head-On
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
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muscle & fitness
Precision is Learned
“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.”
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Self-Seeker
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
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Endless Ambition
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
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Modesty is Key
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
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Muscle & fitness
The Art of Life
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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Se Without Blinders
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”
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Never Back Down
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.”
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Eternal Athleticism
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
“You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese star in the world.”
No limits
“If you always put limits 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.”
Martial Arts
“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.”
Making Waves
“No thinking, no reflecting—perfect emptiness, yet therein something moves, following its own course—the moon in the stream.”
New Heights
“Nothingness cannot be confined, the softest thing cannot be snapped.”
Take Life Head-On
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
Precision is Learned
“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.”
Self-Seeker
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
Endless Ambition
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
Modesty is Key
“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.”
The Art of Life
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
Se Without Blinders
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.”
Never Back Down
“Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.”
Eternal Athleticism
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
