“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”

— Bruce Lee · Wisdom quote

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. — Bruce Lee quote card
Martial artist and actor · 1940 – 1973

Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor who transformed martial-arts cinema with films such as Enter the Dragon. His philosophy of adaptability — 'be water' — blended Taoist ideas with his own Jeet Kune Do.

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