We were meant to give our lives away. Spend more time living your legacy instead of worrying ...
LEE J. COLAN Life's rewards go to those who let their actions rise above their excuses.
LEE J. COLAN The 80/20 Principle exists in your business, then the most profitable 1/5 of your business is 16 tim...
LEE J. COLAN The hardest thing for your competitors to match is the most unique aspect of your orga...
LEE J. COLAN Nothing we achieve in this world is achieved alone. It is always achieved with others teaching us a...
LEE J. COLAN Our actual experiences are much less important that how we choose to think about them.
LEE J. COLAN Help is not help until it is given, so turn your intentions to help into acts of help. We judge our...
LEE J. COLAN You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.
LEE J. COLAN Since we fear most that which is unknown to us, defining moments of change occur when we choose to k...
LEE J. COLAN Complexity creates a maze between you and success. Simplicity ensures a clear line of sight.
LEE J. COLAN About 70% of customers
LEE J. COLAN Tame your technology
LEE J. COLAN Ask the right questions. The fastest way to change the answers you receive
LEE J. COLAN Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, bu...
LEE J. COLAN A single act does make a difference...it creates a ripple effect that can be felt many miles and peo...
LEE J. COLAN Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will deepen your own learning.
LEE J. COLAN 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep m...
J. LEE THOMPSON Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political ...
J. LEE THOMPSON I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in...
J. LEE THOMPSON Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.
STEVEN J. LEE Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may se...
J 'SON M. LEE My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.
LEE CHILD In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch...
JENNIFER LEE Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi...
SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil...
LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh...
TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don&#...
TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma...
TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa...
TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary.
TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e...
TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
HARPER LEE Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it th...
HARPER LEE You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
HARPER LEE Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...
HARPER LEE I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's ...
LEE TREVINO There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
SPIKE LEE Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in ...
HARPER LEE I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor a...
SPIKE LEE Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
BRANDON LEE I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
SPIKE LEE Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still you...
ANNA LEE I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
ANNA LEE They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can ...
ANNA LEE My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
ANNA LEE Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.
ANNA LEE Every day that I get to step onto a set is a good day for me.
LEE NORRIS If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not...
LEE TREVINO That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to k...
LEE TREVINO I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
LEE DANIELS You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would lik...
HARPER LEE I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. ...
LEE DANIELS General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squ...
LEE SMOLIN Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...
HARPER LEE I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge ...
TOMMY LEE I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'.
BRANDON LEE I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have...
ANG LEE I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.
LEE IACOCCA There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
LEE RADZIWILL I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre...
LEE DANIELS The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d...
JIM LEE I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush.
BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'...
BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi...
BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against...
BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de...
BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.
BRANDON LEE Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I ...
LEE TREVINO When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pu...
AILEEN LEE So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and oth...
LEE STROBEL When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the ac...
LEE HANEY I don't sound disloyal, but I've never had a pair of Marvel pyjamas or underwear. I do have ...
STAN LEE Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lo...
LEE DEWYZE No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately...
TOMMY LEE The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. So...
SPIKE LEE The first day when I saw the scores I knew I could have the win because only three people shot in th...
ALAN LEE He must teach evolution exclusively observable scientific fact, not beliefs or religion. I fully bel...
ALAN LEE They're not sure exactly where they're going.
ALAN LEE Most are extremely embarrassed and humiliated. They're not used to asking for help. We've given them...
ALAN LEE Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as ...
ANG LEE What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing...
BLAINE LEE The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
BLAINE LEE What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasing...
BLAINE LEE For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy ju...
LEE CHILD