There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Success is the child of audacity.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

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

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

My drive is other people’s success.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

What one has to do usually can be done.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.