The Way of the Intercepting Fist
The more I learn about Bruce Lee, the more impressed I am. He was a philosopher, an innovator, a practitioner, and least importantly, a movie star. Although his movies were brilliant, and brought his ideas to the mainstream, they only touched on the true attributes of Bruce Lee.
There are some people that I put in an elite category, in which their skills, in their specialty, were vastly superior to any of their contemporaries. Most of these people showed their brilliance as very young ages, worked harder than the others, and were overwhelming successful in what they did. This list would include Mozart, Einstein, Wayne Gretzky, Archimedes, Bobby Fischer, and Bruce Lee. Of course there are others throughout history. Who would you put on your list?
There are some people that I put in an elite category, in which their skills, in their specialty, were vastly superior to any of their contemporaries. Most of these people showed their brilliance as very young ages, worked harder than the others, and were overwhelming successful in what they did. This list would include Mozart, Einstein, Wayne Gretzky, Archimedes, Bobby Fischer, and Bruce Lee. Of course there are others throughout history. Who would you put on your list?
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Theodore B. TaylorLeonardo DaVinciFor Sports, Babe Ruth or Michael Jordan or Vinny Testaverde or Jim Brown.
Honorable mentions: Alexander the Great. Any of these women. Thomas Edison. Johnny Von Neumann. Hugh Hefner. Walt Disney. P.T. Barnum. Richard Feynman. Ben Franklin.
Interesting list here.
Iain.
I believe that few in NYC understands the history of the city and state in which they live.
A SMALL PORTION of his accomplishments (he has direct and dictatorial management of all of these projects) include: the Triborough, Verrazzaro Narrows, Throgs Neck, Cross Bay and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges. To connect these he built the Cross Bronx Expressway, Major Deegan, Bruckner Expressway, Gowanus Expressway, Whitestone Expressway, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Clearview, Sheridian, the Harlem River Drive and West Side Highway. His most prominent public buildings include Lincoln Center, the old New York Coliseum, the United Nations complex, Shea Stadium, the 1964 New York World's Fair, Co-Op City, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Villages. Add to that hundreds of thousands of New York City public housing units, hundreds of City parks filled with tennis courts, swimming pools, baseball diamonds. And these are only the tip of the iceberg. Jones Beach, Niagra State Park, Power Dams, Tunnels, Beaches. He made land where there was none. He destroyed whole communities in his path. He carved up the state and the city as he chose. Completely and utterly without restraint, for 40 years.
Moses was also a philosopher. He had specific ideas about economics and class. But instead of writing a book, he implemented thousands of miles and millions of tons of steel and concrete to cement his philosophy into reality. Unfortunately, his philosophy was bad. He was a bad, bad man. But is being talented and being good mutually exclusive?