If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

I just want to keep writing music.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they’re stuck in that safe place.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.