Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that’s when he stops growing.
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
Understand your limitations and capitalize on them.
Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don’t support them with strength and flexibility.
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.
You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.
The word ‘superstar’ is an illusion.
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.
The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form.
To be what I term a ‘quality’ human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. 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.
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.
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion.
There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.