It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Nothing will work unless you do.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.