I believe that every person is born with talent.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

I can dance to just about anything.

Few people realize that luck is created.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

I am fearless.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

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

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Never confuse motion with action.