It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Success is not a stop sign.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

You fail only if you stop writing.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.