I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

I like to work.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

Research is creating new knowledge.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

I don’t do research. I never have.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.