Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I tried to give the world a bit of creativity, lyrics. And for me, I will always represent music from Puerto Rico, reggaeton, Latin music.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

What we figured out was that in order to get everyone in the world to have basic access to the Internet, that’s a problem that’s probably billions of dollars. Or maybe low tens of billions. With the right innovation, that’s actually within the range of affordability.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don’t really know what we’re doing and when we do, it doesn’t seem to help.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

The doer alone learneth.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

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

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.