Filmmaker Quotes

“If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.”

“Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.”

“All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.”

“Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

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

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

“Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?”

“The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.”

“I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.”

“The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.”

“A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.”

“I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.”

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

“Low aim, not failure, is the crime.”

“Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.”

“The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.”

“A man must constantly exceed his level”

“Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

“Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.”

“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.”

“Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.”

“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”