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For Bruce Lee, discipline wasn't about rigid adherence to rules; it was about the honest expression of the human body. He famously said, 'I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ' This dedication to repetition and mastery defined his life. He taught that discipline is the tool that sharpens talent into skill, turning potential into kinetic energy.
"Obey the principles without being bound by them."
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."
"The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."
"The body must be kept in prime condition, for it is the vehicle of the soul."
"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
"If you don't have flexibility, you don't have anything."
"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
"To control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature."
"Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own."
"Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish. Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
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