Very well done! If you have a second: Do you know this quote: "Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concecpt. Instead learn to actualize yourself, your potential" If yes, do you know if it was actually said by Mr Lee? It was posted on his official Facebook page in 2016.
The quote you mention can be found on page 177 of the book "Bruce Lee: Striking Thoughts". The full quote is this: "Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE yourself, your potential. The main thing is to listen. To listen, to understand, to be open, is one and the same." The quote is a paraphrasing of the following: "This is why we are far from realizing the fact that we are playing roles. There are no bombs here, there is no killing, there is no little girl, these are only images. Most of our whole striving in life is pure fantasy. We don't want to become what we are. We want to become a concept, a fantasy, what we should be like. And the main thing is the listening. To listen, to understand, to be open, is one and the same." - Frederick S. Perls, "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim", page 245
One quote I've seen attributed to Bruce Lee several times that I've wondered about/doubted the authenticity of is the "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times". To me that sounds like something folks might think sounds Bruce Lee-ish, but to me sounds like it's trying a little too hard to sound "deep", to me it doesn't sound like Bruce Lee. Am I wrong about this one? Is it a verifiable Bruce Lee quote? Regardless, I feel where you're coming from with the disappointment with Shannon & the Lee Estate for having no problem with falsely attributing numerous "words of wisdom" to the Little Dragon. They're clearly trying to sell him as some kind of spiritual self-help guru while at the same time keeping absolutely silent about some of Bruce's all too real human weaknesses (has Shannon not seen the Bob Baker letters or is she just ignoring them until they go away?). I'm a Bruce Lee fan but at some point I realized he was only human after all!
This statement by Bruce Lee seems to be adapted from a latin statement "Timeo hominem unius libri", generally attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, where it is commonly translated in its entirety as: "I fear the man of one book; I fear the man who knows one book (or subject), and knows it thoroughly." It appears Bruce adapted it to give it a martial arts application. Although it may draw its inspiration from the Aquinas quote, Bruce Lee's version is so significantly adapted that it is still fair to call it a Bruce Lee quote.
Firstly, there are not 10,000 kicks. There may be 100 kicks. There may be 10 kicks one person can master. If he or anyone would say it, it would be 10 or 100, not 10,000. And it is not true. There is a phrase "Johnny one note", which is a good thing in the musical but not a good thing in real life. "A one trick pony." Bruce Lee himself said you should overwhelm your opponent with the DIVERSITY of your attacks. I read it in a Bruce Lee book somewhere.
"self-help guru" Bingo! The self-help industry is the biggest scam. People don't speak in quotes. A sentence makes no sense outside a paragraph, a paragraph makes no sense outside a story. Everything needs a context. Good or bad needs a context. Haste makes waste. The quick and the dead. Opposites attract. Birds of feather flock together.
Great work James!
Very well done! If you have a second: Do you know this quote:
"Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concecpt. Instead learn to actualize yourself, your potential"
If yes, do you know if it was actually said by Mr Lee? It was posted on his official Facebook page in 2016.
The quote you mention can be found on page 177 of the book "Bruce Lee: Striking Thoughts". The full quote is this: "Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE yourself, your potential. The main thing is to listen. To listen, to understand, to be open, is one and the same."
The quote is a paraphrasing of the following: "This is why we are far from realizing the fact that we are playing roles. There are no bombs here, there is no killing, there is no little girl, these are only images. Most of our whole striving in life is pure fantasy. We don't want to become what we are. We want to become a concept, a fantasy, what we should be like. And the main thing is the listening. To listen, to understand, to be open, is one and the same." - Frederick S. Perls, "Gestalt Therapy Verbatim", page 245
@@passionatemindinstitute Thx very much!
One quote I've seen attributed to Bruce Lee several times that I've wondered about/doubted the authenticity of is the "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times". To me that sounds like something folks might think sounds Bruce Lee-ish, but to me sounds like it's trying a little too hard to sound "deep", to me it doesn't sound like Bruce Lee. Am I wrong about this one? Is it a verifiable Bruce Lee quote?
Regardless, I feel where you're coming from with the disappointment with Shannon & the Lee Estate for having no problem with falsely attributing numerous "words of wisdom" to the Little Dragon. They're clearly trying to sell him as some kind of spiritual self-help guru while at the same time keeping absolutely silent about some of Bruce's all too real human weaknesses (has Shannon not seen the Bob Baker letters or is she just ignoring them until they go away?). I'm a Bruce Lee fan but at some point I realized he was only human after all!
This statement by Bruce Lee seems to be adapted from a latin statement "Timeo hominem unius libri", generally attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas, where it is commonly translated in its entirety as: "I fear the man of one book; I fear the man who knows one book (or subject), and knows it thoroughly." It appears Bruce adapted it to give it a martial arts application. Although it may draw its inspiration from the Aquinas quote, Bruce Lee's version is so significantly adapted that it is still fair to call it a Bruce Lee quote.
Firstly, there are not 10,000 kicks. There may be 100 kicks. There may be 10 kicks one person can master.
If he or anyone would say it, it would be 10 or 100, not 10,000.
And it is not true.
There is a phrase "Johnny one note", which is a good thing in the musical but not a good thing in real life. "A one trick pony."
Bruce Lee himself said you should overwhelm your opponent with the DIVERSITY of your attacks. I read it in a Bruce Lee book somewhere.
"self-help guru"
Bingo!
The self-help industry is the biggest scam. People don't speak in quotes. A sentence makes no sense outside a paragraph, a paragraph makes no sense outside a story.
Everything needs a context. Good or bad needs a context.
Haste makes waste.
The quick and the dead.
Opposites attract.
Birds of feather flock together.