Ed Lee Quotes

I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.

We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.

If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

Belts are only good for holding up your pants

Caddies are a breed of their own. If you shoot 66, they say, "Man, we shot 66!" But go out and shoot 77, and they say "Hell, he shot 77!"

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

Instead of attacking people, we need to love people. It lights a fire under me because it's a reminder of why we need the Gospel. Our hearts are so corrupt.

Either push your limits or die.

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.

Be like water, my friend.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.