I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

I don’t regret anything.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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

The Internet is a big distraction.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Delay is preferable to error.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Revolutions go not backward.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

I don’t do meetings.