Don't mistake activity with achievement.
Listen if you want to be heard
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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...
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!
I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
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.
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.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment
