When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

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

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

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

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

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

Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

When things go wrong don't go with them

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

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment