Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? [Like] 'Republican party' [or] 'airplane food'.

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.

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.

Work does not kill a man, it is worry, irregularity and uncertainty that kill.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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!

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.