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.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Percentages are why I am rich.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs
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.
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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...
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Success in life depends on action, that is, on what you do, and not what you Feel or think, and the price of success is hard work.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Dont make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people cant take their eyes off of you.
Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
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.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.