Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Bruce Lee

Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

Bruce Lee

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Bruce Lee

Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.

Bruce Lee

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

Bruce Lee

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

Bruce Lee

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Bruce Lee

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Bruce Lee

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Bruce Lee

The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

Bruce Lee

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Bruce Lee

All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between.

Bruce Lee

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Bruce Lee

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

Bruce Lee

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Bruce Lee

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Bruce Lee

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

Bruce Lee

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

Bruce Lee

Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.

Bruce Lee

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

Bruce Lee

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Brooks Atkinson

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Brooks Atkinson

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to share them with the public. Real art is illumination. It gives a man an idea he never had before or lights up ideas that were formless or only lurking in the shadows of his mind. It adds stature to life.

Brooke Shields

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Brother Lawrence

That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only.

Brooke Astor

I have to go around and ask people for money, of course, quite a lot. And it's quite an art to ask people for money. But I think that I have to ask them for money for the things that I'm interested in, and of course, money breeds money.

Brock Yates

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

Edwidge Danticat

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Edwidge Danticat

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Edward Young

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Edward Young

The course of Nature is the art of God

Edward Young

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.