Ed Lee Quotes

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

You need emotional content.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

I think people are universal.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!

I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.

I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.

I'm very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I'm very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.

There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

From form to formless and from finite to infinite

The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people, to present them with something they didn't expect.

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

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past... lead me here today.

I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

A woman may be a mother, a sister, a business woman, or she may own a business. Woman do many things, and it is important that we do it with grace and style.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.