To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Americans never quit.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The best way out is always through.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

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

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.