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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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

We become what we repeatedly do.

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

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

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.

Ability without honor is useless.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

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.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

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.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

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.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I do my job like I breathe.

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 mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

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.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

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

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.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

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 world remains ever the same.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

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

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

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

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it’s luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it’s not luck.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.