Bruce Lee wordt beschouwd als 1 van de grootste martial arts icoon/acteur van de 20ste eeuw.
Wist je dat hij in 1958 het Cha Cha kampioenschap in Hong Kong heeft gewonnen.
Hij hield een notitieboek bij, waarbij hij 108 verschillende Cha Cha stappen had genoteerd.
Zowel in zijn martial arts maar ook zijn andere passies kon je zien dat hij gedisciplineerd en een harde werker was, hetgeen ik in hem bewonder.

Hong Kong is een Britse kolonie geweest en op jonge leeftijd gebeurde het vaak dat Bruce Lee en zijn vrienden ruzie kregen met Britse leeftijdsgenoten, waarbij er ook vechtpartijen zijn uitgebroken. Dit motiveerde hem om op 13 jarige leeftijd martial arts te gaan studeren.
Op zijn 18de ging hij via een stoomschip met 100 dollar in zijn broekzak op weg naar Amerika.
Hij studeerde onder andere filosofie en psychologie op school en gaf gung fu les in garages, en parkeerplaatsen etc voor geld om zich te onderhouden. Even later heeft hij zijn eigen school geopend. Het lot heeft hem op een gegeven moment een hele andere weg in laten slaan, namelijk het acteren en de rest is eigenlijk geschiedenis.

Hij overleed op 32 jarige leeftijd, wat veel te jong is. Hij heeft mij geinspireerd met zijn filosofie en eigenlijk hele kijk op het leven.
Daarom wil ik met jullie de volgende citaten delen en hopelijk begrijp je dan wat ik bedoel.
Zoveel mooie uitspraken, enjoy!

35 inspirerende citaten van Bruce Lee

1) “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”  – Bruce Lee

2) “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”  – Bruce Lee

3) “In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.” –  Bruce Lee

4) “It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you’re being knocked down, ‘Why am I being knocked down?’ If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.”   – Bruce Lee

5) “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”   – Bruce Lee

6) “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”   – Bruce Lee

7) “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”   – Bruce Lee

8) “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”  – Bruce Lee

9) “If you truly love life, don’t waste time because time is what life is made of.” – Bruce Lee

10) “Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” – Bruce Lee

11) “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” – Bruce Lee

12) “Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”  – Bruce Lee

13) “As you think, so shall you become”. – Bruce Lee

14) “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”  – Bruce Lee

15) “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities”. – Bruce Lee

16) “For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.” Bruce Lee

17) “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee

18)  “Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own” – Bruce Lee

19) “Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.”  – Bruce Lee

20) “a goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at” – Bruce Lee

21) “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.” – Bruce Lee

22) “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” – Bruce Lee

23) “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee

24) “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.” – Bruce Lee

25) “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.” – Bruce Lee

26) ““Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” – Bruce Lee

27) “Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image” – Bruce Lee

28) “Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” – Bruce Lee

29) “You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.” – Bruce Lee

30) “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. – Bruce Lee

31) “Linda and I aren’t one and one. We are two halves that make a whole — two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!” – Bruce Lee

32) “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.” – Bruce Lee

33) “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.” – Bruce Lee

34) “The possession of anything begins in the mind.” – Bruce Lee