Did Bruce say: “True power is to sit back, leaning back and watching everything wisely”?

On the network, the phrase of suffering allegedly spoken by Bruce Lee has been walking for a long time due to an emotional reaction to other people's words and the true power of calm. We decided to check if he really said this.

During his life, Bruce Lee was not only a master of eastern martial arts, but master philosophical sayings, therefore, on various sites you can find Many quotes attributed to the actor. One of them in a popular translation into Russian sounds like this: “You will continue to suffer, if you continue to emotionally respond to everything that they tell you. True power is to sit back, leaning back, and watch all this with logic. If the words control you, this means that anyone can control you. Exhale and let these things pass by. ”

So, posts with such a quote and mention of whether you can find VKontakte in public Bruce lee | The Dragon (1000 likes, 21,000 views), Best Books (300, 11,000), "Cold -blooded" (500, 16,000) and "Bruce Lee | Bruce Lee " (600, 10,000), as well as on numerous sites sites (Citaty.info, 3Citaty.ru And BBF) And "Picabu".

We were not able to find any authoritative source that would indicate where and when Lee said this phrase. Although in official accounts in social networks dedicated to the work of the actor who died in 1973 (for example, in Twitter), a new content regularly appears, including numerous quotes of the movie star, it was also not possible to find the aforementioned words about “true power” there.

To establish authorship of the quote, our colleagues-factory colleagues from the Agency France Press (AFP) by e-mail turned to Sidney Wilson, the head of the licensing department of the Bruce Lee Foundation and part -time to the second cousin, Shannon Lee (native daughter Bruce Lee). In his answer Wilson She saidthat there is no reason to attribute these words to the actor: "I have no evidence that would confirm that Bruce Lee personally said." However, she added that in 77th episode The podcast about life and philosophy, composed by his daughter, is similar motives and ideas. The topic of the release was as follows: “It is important not what is happening, your reaction to what is happening is important”, but not a single phrase from there coincides with the distributed quote.

Note that English-language Internet users also attribute these words to Warren Buffett, an American entrepreneur and one of the richest people in the world. On the network, there is even a screenshot with Buffett's tweet containing this quote. Moreover, on official page there is no investor of such a post and, judging by the saved copies from web archive, never was. Assistant Buffetta Debbie Bosanek also reported AFP, that these words do not belong to the oramal from Omaha: "A quote from this fake screenshot from Facebook* has never been uttered by Warren Buffett."

In fact, this is not quite a fake screenshot. In fact, the tweet was published by the fake account of Warren Buffetta: the official verified page on the ID indicates only the name of the billionaire (@warrenbuffett), while the letters of HQ were added from the fuel. @Warrenbuffethq. Currently, the impostor account of the account is suspended.

Your investigation Spent And the portal Quote Investigator (Qi), which specializes in clarifying the origin of quotes. They also concluded that the phrase about the “true power” does not belong either or Buffett, since it was not possible to find any significant evidence that they had ever said or wrote this. Her earliest mention that was discovered by Qi was in tweet Users Cindy Flores for March 24, 2016, while the quote is not attributed to either a well -known businessman or a martial art wizard. On Qi they added that Flores may not be the author of words, because it is difficult to set the source in social networks, and that similar excerpts of phrases went on Twitter a few years before the Flores post. And in November 2016 a phrase I got it In the material of the Odyssey site under the heading "19 anonymous quotes that you need to read." By the way, in Runet too Meet Publications where this quote is not attributed to anyone.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: @brucelee (Twitter)

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