It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Please all, and you will please none.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

Only you can control your future.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.