JKD Sayings

If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it

If you have mastered a system of Gung Fu, after you have mastered it, you have to let go of it and head for a higher level. Do not hold to what you have. It is like a ferry boat for people who want to get across waters. Once you have got across, never bear it on your back. You should head forward.

Knowledge is of the past; learning is in the present, a constant movement, in relationship with the outward things, without the past.

Freedom lies in understanding yourself from moment to moment.

Jeet Kune Do: 1. The absence of a system of stereotyped techniques. 2. The "fitting-in" spirit. In this art, efficiency is anything that scores.

The two diseases: 1. One is riding an ass to search for an ass. 2. One is riding an ass and being unwilling to dismount.

An intelligent mind is one that is constantly learning, never concluding - styles and patterns have come to conclusion, therefore they ceased to be intelligent.

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

When I listened to my mistakes I have grown.

There will never be means to ends, only means. And I am means. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

What you are is because of your habits of thought.

Persistence - persistence - and persistence.....

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

“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.”

“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.”

using no way as a way, using no limitations as a limitation

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you”

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."”

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.”

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to exlplore yourself

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will