Bruce Lee citáty

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„Chyby sú vždy odpustiteľné, keď má daná osoba odvahu ich priznať.“

„Nemodlite sa pre ľahší život, modlite sa pre silu, vďaka ktorej vydržíte ťažký život.“

„Cieľ nemá byť vždy dosiahnutý, často slúži iba na to, aby sme mali na čo zamieriť.“

„Berte veci tak, ako sú. Udrite, keď musíte udrieť. Kopnite, keď musíte kopnúť.“

„Ak milujete život, neplytvajte časom, pretože čas je to, z čoho sa život skladá.“

„Vedomosti nestačia, musíme ich aplikovať. Nestačí chcieť, musíme konať.“

„Dobrý učiteľ chráni žiakov aj pred svojim vlastným vplyvom.“

„Hocijaká technika, nech je akákoľvek vzácna a žiadaná, sa stáva chorobou, ak je ňou posadnutá myseľ.“

„Láska je ako priateľstvo, ktoré horí. Spočiatku je iba ako plameň, veľmi pekná, často horúca a divoká, ale stále iba slabá a blikajúca. A ako láska starne a naše srdcia dozrievajú, je ako uhlie, hlboko horiaca a neuhasiteľná.“

„Buďte šťastní, ale nikdy spokojní.“

„Neboj sa zlyhania. Nie zlyhanie, ale nízky cieľ, je trestný čin. Pri veľkých pokusoch je slávne aj zlyhanie.“

„Vyvážte svoje myšlienky činmi. Ak strávite príliš veľa času premýšľaním nad nejakou vecou, nikdy ju nespravíte.“

„Čím menej sa namáhate, tým budete rýchlejší a výkonnejší.“

„K čertu s okolnosťami, ja vytváram príležitosti.“

„Prispôsobte sa užitočnému, odmietnite zbytočné a pridajte niečo, čo je len vaše.“

„Všimnite si, že najtuhší strom sa najľahšie zlomí, zatiaľ čo bambus alebo vŕba prežijú vďaka ohýbaniu vetrom.“

„Ako myslíš, takým sa staneš.“

„Vždy buďte sami sebou, vyjadrite sa, verte si, nehľadajte úspešnú osobnosť, ktorú by ste odkopírovali.“

„Ak stále vymedzuješ a chlievikuješ všetko, čo robíš – či už fyzicky alebo nejako inak – rozšíri sa to do tvojej práce a do tvojho života. Niet obmedzení. Sú len úrovne a na tých nesmieš zostať, musíš sa snažiť dostať ďalej a vyššie.“

„Spoznať seba samého znamená skúmať seba samého pri jednaní s druhou osobou.“

„Nerozmýšľajte o tom, kto má pravdu, kto sa mýli alebo kto je lepší. Nebuďte za ani proti.“

„Žiadne pevne stanovené vzory nie sú schopné prispôsobivosti alebo ohybnosti. Pravda sa nachádza mimo nich.“

„Prípravou na zajtrajšok je tvrdá práca už dnes.“

“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.”