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"Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? Do they change places with lightning speed? The Chinese believe so. To put the heart of the martial arts in your own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension."
"Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?"
"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation."
"The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom."
"After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge."
"I do not fear the man who practices 1,000 kicks one time each. I fear the man who practices 1 kick 1,000 times."
"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."
"Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat."
"What can you take from me which is not already yours?"
"I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life."
"Truth cannot be structured or confined."
"Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart."
"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."
"True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system."
"Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect."
"I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves."