An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
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- Bruce Lee
- Source
- Jeet Kune Do (1997), Part 5 "On training in Jeet Kune Do"
- Culture / tradition
- Chinese American
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