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Bruce Lee

Biography

Type: Actor, Martial artist

Born: November 27, 1940

Died: July 20, 1973

Bruce Lee was born "Lee Jun Fan" november twenty-seventh 1940 in San Francisco, the son of Lee Hoi Chuen, a singer with the Cantonese Opera. Lee was born while his father was on tour in America. Approximately one year later the family returned to Kowloon in Hong Kong. Growing up, Lee was a child actor who appeared in some 20 Chinese films including The Birth of Mankind (1946) and Fu gui fu yun (1948). He also studied dancing and trained in the Wing Chun style of kung fu.

Bruce Lee Quotes

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.. Bruce
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Be happy, but never satisfied.. Bruce Lee
Be happy, but never satisfied.

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes
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.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.. Bruce
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.. Bruce Lee
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

The doubters said, Man can not fly, The doers said, Maybe, but we'll try, And finally
The doubters said,
"Man can not fly,"
The doers said,
"Maybe, but we'll try,"
And finally soared
In the morning glow
While non-believers
Watched from below.

The more we value things, the less we value ourselves. Bruce Lee
The more we value things, the less we value ourselves

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

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of
I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

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

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.. Bruce Lee
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.. Bruce Lee
Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you
Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.. Bruce Lee
Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

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