Y.S. Lee Quotes

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

I'll never kick dogs, I'll never hurt a child, I'll never slap a woman - three things I won't do on film.

I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

I can't forgive a woman who is irresponsible and dishonest

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

Things are always better in the morning.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

If people are making fun of you, then you're probably doing something right.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

In all true faith there is complete committal to God.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

If you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering