"Notice that the stiffest tree is most..." - Quote by Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
More by Bruce Lee
“I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.”
“I create opportunities.”
“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
More on Flexibility
“There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.”
“Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.”
“Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
More on Resilience
“You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.”