Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

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

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it’s a way to make a living.

The Ronaldo who came to Manchester United had a lot of dribbling, trickery, playing more on the wings and making more assists.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I do my job like I breathe.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I can say that out of 365 days, I manage to do yoga on at least 300 days.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.