Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
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.
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.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Please all, and you will please none.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.