Remembering Bruce Lee - 25 Rare Pictures & Quotes

Today is the birthday of the famous martial artists and movie star Bruce Lee. On that occasion Irongangsta presents 27 rare pictures of him. 

Some of the pictures are shots from Lee's movies and are showing the violent, wild, passionate and aggressive side of Bruce Lee while the rest are family photos revealing to some extend the personal life of the actor. Enjoy.

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

― Bruce Lee

"Real living is living for others."

Bruce Lee 

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

Bruce Lee

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

Bruce Lee

"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 

“To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.”

Bruce Lee

"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."

Bruce Lee 

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

Bruce Lee

"You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world."

Bruce Lee 

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

Bruce Lee

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

Bruce Lee 

"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."

Bruce Lee 

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

Bruce Lee 

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee 

"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 

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Bruce Lee

Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly" and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. The danger of training with the heavy bag is that it doesn't react to one’s attack and sometimes there is a tendency to thoughtlessness. One will punch the bag carelessly, and would be vulnerable in a real situation if this became a habit.

Bruce Lee

Question: What are your thoughts when facing an opponent? 

Bruce: There is no opponent. 

Question: Why is that? 

Bruce: Because the word ''l'' does not exist. A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand. And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by itself (shows his fist). Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

Bruce Lee

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

Bruce Lee

“A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.”

Bruce Lee

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

Bruce Lee

“I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.”

Bruce Lee

“Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.”

Bruce Lee

"If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.”

Bruce Lee

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

Bruce Lee

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7 Reasons To Quit Watching TV

“Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out.”

 ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

1. Annoying commercials and lack of freedom

I don't know about you but I prefer to be able to stop the movie I am watching and go get something to eat. Also annoying, long and brainwashing commercials are not very interesting to watch. I would rather skip them by watching movies on my computer.

2. Watching news is too stressfull

I hate watching news. Currently my job requires me to read Internet and newspaper news of all kinds and I am kinda sensitive on that subject. Reading about all the bad stuff that happened during the day can have only one result - negative mindset. In 99% of the cases the news on TV or everywhere else are just cruel. The worst thing however is that you cannot do much about it since you probably live 4500 miles away. My simple conclusion is that you can save yourself some torture and skip the news entirely. 

3. Save money

By throwing your TV out of the window (make sure there is nobody passing) you will save money from monthly fees. You can use them to upgrade your Internet connection. Also by not buying a TV you can afford a better PC monitor. We all know that PC owns TV any day.

4. Spend more time with your family

Let's face it - most people don't share as much these days. Everybody sits in front a computer or a TV and watches/reads some crap. Shut down and go talk to your kids, parents....your family.

5. Bad sound

Unless you have a quality system chances are your TV will have terrible sound. Like a can. It sucks.

6. Be happier

There was a study which showed that people are more happy when they are using their skills. Guess what - anybody can watch TV. Hell, even my cat watches sometimes. Not that my cat lacks skills. 

Watching TV is like turning the auto-pilot on. Turn off that motherfucker and go do something harder.

7. Be different

Everybody watches TV, everybody is a pussy, everybody is afraid to take action - why should we be everybody. I thought we were iron gangstas?

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