Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.