Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

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.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.