Lin Quotes

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.