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.
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
The world does not pay men for that which they 'know'. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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.
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Vision without execution is just hallucination.
No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and back to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.
Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.
