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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
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“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
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“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
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Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
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“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
― Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
― Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
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