I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

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

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I like to work.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.