Because of styles, people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.
~ Bruce Lee
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Absorb what is useful →
How good? →
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Said during an interview on the Charlie Rose show after being asked his advice for aspiring performers:
Nobody ever takes note of [my advice], because it’s not the answer they wanted to hear. What they want to hear is, “Here’s how you get an agent, here’s how you write a script,” … but I always say, “Be so good they can’t ignore you.'”
~ Steve Martin
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Grow up? →
Now you understand why Peter Pan didn’t want to grow up.
~ unknown
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It’s just a ride →
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly coloured, and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question – is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say ‘Hey! Don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.’ And we… kill those people.
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Be soft! →
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe the world to be a beautiful place.
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Be water →
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, 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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Do you have a question? →
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
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Precendence →
Dead last finish is greater than did not finish, which trumps did not start.
~ unknown
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Be kind →
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato
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Did not finish →
Never throw in the towel. Use it to wipe the sweat from your brow. Then keep going.
~ unknown
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