Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I love being busy.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

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

‚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.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

See, winners embrace hard work.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.