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.“

“Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.”

“Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.”

“Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.”

“Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles.”

“In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than "doing."”

“The dualistic philosophy reigned supreme in Europe, dominating the development of Western science. But with the advent of atomic physics, findings based on demonstrable experiment were seen to negate the dualistic theory, and the trend of thought since then has been back to the monistic conception of the ancient Taoists.”

“When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.”

“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality — to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”

“Reality is being itself. — It is being itself, in becoming itself. Reality in its isness, the "isness" of a thing. Thus isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense — not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.”

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

“Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.”

“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.”

“An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.”

“A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred — the human law in himself, his own individual will.”

“The change is from inner to outer. — We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”

“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.”

“You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.”

“True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.”

“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”

“When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!”

“Concentration is the ROOT of all the higher abilities in man.”

“As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.”

“The aphorism "as a man thinketh in his heart so is he" contains the secret of life.”

“To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.”

“None whatsoever.”

“Revolutionize your mind. ”

“When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“Cease negative mental chattering.”

“The change is from inner to outer.”