A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

I wanted to write.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.