I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I think that I’m perfect.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

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.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The Internet is a big distraction.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.