For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Our intention creates our reality.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

I’m not no Internet person.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.