Bruce Lee Water Quotes & Sayings

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and 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. — Bruce Lee

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. — Bruce Lee

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews. — William C. Bryant

My style is like Bruce Lee, I'm like water. It's everything from defensive, to counters, to offense. — Nonito Donaire

You just got to out there and flow, like Bruce Lee said, you got to be like water. — Cub Swanson

When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style. — Bruce Lee

I grew up being a huge fan of Bruce Lee, and this quote always stuck out to me. He said, "Water can flow, or it can crash. If you put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot." It always made sense to me to adapt the flow and roll with whatever the situation is and to not think about it too much and get caught up in it. It works easier for me that way. — Gary Clark Jr.

Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty. — Bruce Lee

He reasoned that if choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered. — David Eagleman

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water. — Bruce Lee

Be like water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. — Bruce Lee

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. — Bruce Lee

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself. — Bruce Lee

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. — Bruce Lee

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. — Bruce Lee

Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit. — Kate Moss

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. — Bruce Lee

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend. — Bruce Lee

water is fearless,you put water into a cup,it becomes the cup ,you put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot,water can flow drip ,creap,or crash! — Bruce Lee

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing. — Bruce Lee

I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love. — Criss Jami

That strange turbulence that rises when you begin to wash up on the island of your own little self and you don't see how you could ever sustain yourself there. — Sue Monk Kidd

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber. — Jason Calacanis

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. — Gautama Buddha

Running water never grows stale. — Bruce Lee