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
Bruce Lee quotes about
Boards don't hit back.
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.
It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity.
...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits.
Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.
Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.