If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I love movement. I love moshing.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

I’m committed to the fight game.