Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I teach children to be winners.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.