I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I like to work.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.