Bruce Lee Quotes

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

The best artists know what to leave out.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Always listen for what you can leave out.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.