F. F. Bruce Quotes

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

Never trust a preacher with more than two suits.

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

To tolerate is to insult.

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

It's time to impeach the president and get a man in there to get us out of this mess.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?'

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

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