Y.S. Lee Quotes

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

When you love something it's not a job anymore.

Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Without music you are all dead; with music you are alive. There is nothing music can't do.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

When you understand things, there's no more magic.

An ad should be an appetizer, not a buffet.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I disagree that our border is in devastating condition.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

Two things that are not long for this world: dogs that chase cars and professional golfers who putt for pars.

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

Someone asked me yesterday if Dracula met Saruman and there was a fight, who would win. I just looked at this man. What an idiotic thing to say. I mean, really, it was half-witted.

Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.

Real living is living for others.

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

Folks need the Gospel. We need to have our hearts changed. We see people from a skewed point of view. We need to see people the way God sees them.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

I took and received campaign donations under the existing laws.

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas.

If it's been done, do it better. If it hasn't been done, do it so well that better is not an option.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I was too weak to defend, so I attacked

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want!