The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
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.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Well done is better than well said.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
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.
Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'