Lee Jun-fan (Chinese: 李振藩; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), commonly known as Bruce Lee (Chinese: 李小龍), was a Chinese American martial artist, actor, director, martial arts instructor and philosopher. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA). Lee is considered by commentators, critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He is credited with helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee ## Notes - [[Dancing and martial arts]] - [[The three stages]] - [[The three stages of cultivation]] - [[The three stages of learning]] - [[The three stages of technique]] - [[The individual over any established system]] ## Quotes - [[Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own]] - [[All knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge]] - [[Always be yourself]] - [[A mechanical man. No longer a human being.]] - [[A punch is just a punch]] - [[Art is the expression of the self]] - [[Become one with the punch]] - [[Be water]] - [[Creation through self realization]] - [[Defeat is a state of mind]] - [[Do not cling to partiality; see things from totality]] - [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]] - [[Don't think, feel]] - [[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]] - [[Fear comes from uncertainty]] - [[Honestly expressing yourself]] - [[How can I be me?]] - [[I am no teacher; I can merely be a signpost for a traveler who is lost]] - [[I do not believe in styles anymore]] - [[I do not hit, it hits all by itself]] - [[I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times]] - [[If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.]] - [[If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of]] - [[Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.]] - [[Kung fu values the wonders of the ordinary, and the idea is not daily increase, but daily decrease]] - [[Learning is a constant process of discovery]] - [[Makers who devote themselves to the quality of making]] - [[Pride and self-esteem]] - [[Pure-heartedness and empty-mindedness are inherent in man]] - [[Remove sophistication and ornamentation and to be simply simple]] - [[Running water never runs stale, so you gotta keep on flowing]] - [[Self knowledge has a liberating quality]] - [[Showing off is a fool's idea of glory]] - [[Simplicity is the key to brilliance]] - [[The art of dying]] - [[The direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy]] - [[The easy way is the right way]] - [[The ego boundary is the differentiation between the self and the other]] - [[The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness]] - [[The individual is of first importance, not the system. Remember that man created method, and not that method created man.]] - [[The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be]] - [[The meaning of life is that it is to be lived]] - [[The more complicated and restrictive a method is, the less opportunity there for expression of one's original sense of freedom]] - [[The more we value things, we less we value ourselves]] - [[The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus]] - [[To become a champion requires a good mental attitude towards preparation. You have to accept the most tedious tasks with pleasure]] - [[To become one. You think, it is.]] - [[To change with change is the changeless state]] - [[To float in totality, to have no technique, is to have all technique]] - [[To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.]] - [[To learn to die is to be liberated from it]] - [[Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation]] - [[Walk on]] - [[When you move, you are determined to move]] ## See also - [[Donnie Yen]] - [[Finesse and flavour]]