Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Lee Jun-fan, known professionally as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong American martial artist, actor, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the son of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen. He is widely considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is often credited with helping to change the way Asians...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth27 November 1940
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
What Is, is more important than What Should Be.
Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself.
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.
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.
If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.
Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
Like a cobra, your strike should be felt before it is seen.
Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh and you fracture his bone; let an opponent fracture your bone and you take his life! Do not be concerned with your escaping safely; lay your life before him!
Transform it, decorate it, let it become a new Bruce Lee museum,
The void is that which stands right in the middle of 'this' and 'that'. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite - there is nothing which it excludes or opposses. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things.
Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.
Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful.