You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup.
Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.
People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual’s martial art but also for his life as a human being.
If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.
My strength comes from my abdomen. It’s the center of gravity and the source of real power.
Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!
The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.
Willing is not enough, one must apply.
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water.
Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.
A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.
Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.