Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

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

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

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.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Always do whatever’s next.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.