Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

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

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I like being a writer.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

‚Nothin‘ on You‘ by B.o.B was the first song where I heard myself on the radio. I’d been trying my whole career to write a song like that, which incorporates live instruments with hip-hop and singing.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.