“The only risk is to waste your life.”
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
“Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
“Your choice is your talent. So choosing the right path, the right project, the right job or passion or religion — that’s where the treasure lies; that’s where the value lies.”
“Sometimes in parenting the best you can do is to lose it in the most constructive way possible.”
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ”
“For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem much use being anything else.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“Set goals as the person you want to be, not as the person you are.”
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
“What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.”
“Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.”
“I don't like writing, I like having written.”
“Give them quality, that's the best kind of advertising.”
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
“You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it.”
“It's better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutely boring”
“Work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“I am the Greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
“Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have – and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.”
“The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.”
“80% of success is showing up.”
“Bones heal, but chicks love scars.”
“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
“Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
“Pain may last a minute, a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
“The difference between theory and practice is a lot greater in practice than it is in theory.”
“ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”
“The self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't mind being completely insane.”
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
“In theory there's no difference between theory & practice. But, in practice, there is.”
“There's no money in poetry, but then again, there's no poetry in money either.”
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
“Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people.”
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
“I don’t think of my life as a career, I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!”
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world... The butterfly knows is only the beginning.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.”
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
“As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also was to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything.”
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
“Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.”
“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
“If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.”
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“I can see beauty where other see ugliness. That either makes me an artist or a person of very poor taste.”
“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you are not.”
“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.”
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for the lack of what is found there.”
“Who has the power to decide if a song is important or not? I certainly don't have that power. And who's to say that the song unwritten or unheard isn't the song that changes everything?”
“This business of "dark"... life is made up of a lot of things. You could write about moon June spoon forever and leave any other realistic feeling you have out of the songbook. I don't understand why you would. And yet if you include the rest of life of life of it you're called 'negative', 'dark'. It's amazing to me.”
“If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said "a faster horse".”
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
“If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, "What is your greatest failure?" I always have the same answer — We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!”
“God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”
“Success is the percentage of your life you control.”
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
“You can choose what you do; you can't choose what you LIKE to do.”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.”
“My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.”
“The Beatles didn't invent teenagers, they just decided to lead them.”
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.”
“I write for my pleasure, but publish for money.”
“Plans are useless, but planning is indispensible.”
“It takes five hundred small details to make one favorable impression.”
“The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
“Having met some successful people, I can assure you that they didn't get that way by deserving it.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“Longing for the days when gals like me were labeled "Nervous" and sent away to paint watercolors and drink broth by a soothing seaside.”
“Sometimes... when people overuse elipses... as I often do myself... I imagine they are having petit mal seizures... and I giggle.”
“We don't make movies to make money. We make money so that we can make more movies.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
“Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.”
“Every single person I have ever met or corresponded with about leaving the work-for-hire world and trying to create something of their own, something that they really care about, says exactly the same thing. Win, lose or draw they always express the same thought and most of the time they say it in exactly these words. What they say is, "I should have done this sooner."”
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.”
“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.”
“If there's anything I've learned, it's the small offerings to connect that lead to surprising opportunities. You just need to keep making the offer, and not have expectations on what comes back. It's both scary and exciting. It doesn't always work out or last, but heck let's see if anything happens.”
“Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent.”
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.”
“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
“Whatever you do, do it with all your might.”
“Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.”
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”
“He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.”
“Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts will.”
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”