Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

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

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Africa will thrive.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

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.

Genius is patience.

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.

Africa is on the rise.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

I can dance to just about anything.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

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.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.