Every action has its pleasures and its price.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
Be quick, but don't hurry.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible'.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
Real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Fake it until you make it.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.