Eighty percent of success is showing up.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
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.
One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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?
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
If your business is only to sweep a crossing, remember it is your duty to make that crossing the best swept of the world.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.