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"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. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end."
"The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?"
"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
"We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness."
"Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death."
"Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that."
"To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else."
"I don't believe in getting something for nothing."
"Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!"
"The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful."
"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."
"The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete."
"There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?"
"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."
"Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation."
"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."
"The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun."
"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible."
"When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!"