I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

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.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

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...

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

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