Quotation
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Simplicity is the last step of art."A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst."
'Enter your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water . Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup , you put water into a bottle, itbecomes thebottle ,youput it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Running water never grows stale, so you gotta just keep on flowing.
'' He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is a fool: shun him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, he is simple: teach him. He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise: follow him.
A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.“
A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.“
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.“
Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.“
Empty your mind. Become formless and shapeless like water. When water is poured into a cup, it becomes the cup. When water is poured into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water, my friend.“
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.“
I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.“
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.“
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.“
If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread over into your work, into your mortality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.“
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.“
Martial art is ultimately an athletic expression of the dynamic human body. More important yet, is the person who is expressing his own soul.“
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.“
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.“
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.“
There's no challenge in breaking a board. Boards don't hit back.“
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.“
When an opportunity in a fight presents itself, 'I' don't hit, 'it' hits all by itself

Bruce Lee

About Bruce Lee

1940 November 27
San Francisco- In the The Year of the Dragon between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. (the hour of the dragon), Lee Jun Fan (meaning return again Lee), Bruce Lee is born at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco?s Chinatown. Lee Hoi Chuen, Bruce's father, was performing with the Cantonese Opera Company in America.
At three months old, Bruce debuts in "Golden Gate Girl" in San Francisco.
He plays role of a female baby, carried by his father.

1941 (Age 1)
Hong Kong - Bruce and his parents return to Kowloon, their family home. They move into an apartment at 218 Nathan Road, Kowloon district. The apartment is located on the second floor of a building containing a store on the first floor.

1946 (Age 6)
Hong Kong - Bruce makes his first major childhood movie in The Beginning of a Boy. He also performs in The Birth of Mankind, and My Son, Ah Cheun. During the later years of his childhood, Bruce appears in 20 more films. At this time Lee also becomes nearsighted and starts to wear glasses. (He will later wear contacts, suggested to him by a friend who is an optometrist.)

1952 (Age 12)
Hong Kong - Lee begins attending La Salle College, a Catholic Boys school.

1953 (Age 13)
Attended St. Xavier College- a high school. Hong Kong - After being beaten up in a street gang altercation, Bruce begins to take Gung-Fu lessons. He begins to train under Yip Man, master of the Wing Chun system of Gung-Fu.

1954 (Age 14)
Hong Kong - Bruce takes up cha-cha dancing.

1958 (Age 1
Studied Wing Chun with Wong Shun Leung.
Hong Kong - Bruce wins the Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship. Bruce has a leading role in the film The Orphan. This is the last movie Bruce makes as a child actor. This is the only movie where Bruce does not fight. Hong Kong - Bruce enters the 1958 Boxing Championships and defeats the reigning three year champion, Gary Elms.

1959 (Age 19)
Hong Kong - Bruce's street fighting was becoming a problem. Bruce's father and mother decide that Bruce should take a three week voyage to the United States. San Francisco California, Chinatown. Lee returns to his birth-place to claim his American Citizenship. San Francisco - Seattle - With $15 from his father, and $100 from his mother, Bruce arrives in the United States, living with an old friend of his father. He works odd jobs around the various Chinese communities. Moved to Seattle to work for Ruby Chow, another friend of his father. He lives in a room above her restaurant while working as a waiter downstairs. He eventually enrolls in Edison Technical School and earns his high school diploma. Bruce begins to teach his Martial Arts.

1961 (Age 21)
Seattle- Bruce enrolls at the University of Washington, studying Philosophy. He teaches Gung-Fu to students at school.

1963 Summer (Age 23)
Hong Kong - Bruce proposes to Amy Sanbo but is turned down. Bruce returns to Hong Kong with friend Doug Palmer for the first time since his arrival in the U.S. to visit family. He then returns to Seattle at the end of summer to continue his education.

1963 October 25 (Age 23)
Seattle - Bruce takes out Linda Emery (his future wife) for their first date. They have dinner at the Space Needle. Bruce gives notice to Ruby Chow and leaves her restaurant. He starts the first Jun Fan Gung-Fu Institute.

1963 Fall (Age 23)
Seattle - Bruce moves his Jun Fan Gung-Fu Institute into a building (4750 University Way) near the university campus. Wrote the book Chinese Gung Fu: The philosophical art of self defense. Lee teaches anyone of any race, (Asian Martial Arts schools would only teach people of their own race) At Garfield High School, Bruce demonstrates the "One-Inch Punch". This is the punch he would later make famous at the 64' Long Beach Internationals.

1964(Age 24)
Bruce meets Jhoon Rhee at the International Karate Championships. The two would remain good friends and Lee would use the high

Linda Lee Cadwell stared at the side-by-side graves strewn with objects of devotion: pennies, poems, smooth stones, burning incense, notes and flowers turning dry in the morning sun at Lake View Cemetery.
One grave was that of her husband, the famed martial-arts hero Bruce Lee. The other, the freshest, was that of her son, actor Brandon Lee. "You just never think your kids are going to die before you," she said softly.
It was Cadwell's first look at a newly installed gravestone for her son, killed two years ago at 28 during filming of "The Crow," a shadowy, surreal film about a cult comic-book character who rises from his grave to avenge his killers.
Brandon Bruce Lee died 17 days before he was to marry Eliza Hutton, and the gravestone is a tribute to their young love.
Its two twisting rectangles of charcoal granite join at the bottom and pull apart at the top.
"It represents Eliza and Brandon, the two of them, and how the tragedy of his death separated their mortal life together," said Cadwell, who described her son, like his father, as a poetic and romantic person.
The inscription, in gold leaf, is a quote Brandon Lee had chosen for the wedding invitations, from Paul Bowles' book "The Sheltering Sky":
"Because we don't know when we will die," it begins with eerie foreshadowing, "we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
"Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really."
Cadwell said that finally seeing her son's gravestone in place gave her a sense of peace. "It brings a kind of closure. It has been 26 months to the day since Brandon died."
Her son was in the final days of production on the North Carolina set of "The Crow" when he was shot with an improperly loaded stunt gun.
The bullet entered his abdomen and severed his spine. Cadwell, charging negligence, eventually reached an out-of-court settlement with the film company of "The Crow." It included an agreement with Lee's fiancee.
Producers excised the fatal scene from the film. Cadwell, who lives in Boise, Idaho, with her third husband, Bruce Cadwell, said she initially was reluctant to see the film. "I kept saying, `I'm not going to see it, I can't bear it.' But I finally said, `I think Brandon would want me to go see it on the big screen.' "
She went to a 5 p.m. showing at a Boise theater and cried through most of it. "The whole thing is so haunting, with everything that happened." Cadwell and Bruce Lee, a philosophy graduate of the University of Washington, raised Brandon and daughter Shannon in Hong Kong, California and, briefly, Bellevue, Wash. She describes her son as "a handful" growing up, bright and playful. "He liked to pull practical jokes and pranks," she said. "He was either the teacher's pet or the teacher's nightmare."
His first role in a movie was at 6, kicking his way across the screen in one of his father's early martial-arts films. Brandon wanted to be an actor from the beginning, Cadwell said. He spent two years in drama at Emerson College in Boston before quitting to head to Hollywood.
Cadwell, who has helped set up a drama scholarship in her son's name at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., said Brandon finally was realizing his dream with "The Crow," a movie that propelled him beyond action-film stereotypes. "It was a time in Brandon's life when everything was coming together," she said. "He could have done so much