A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin PowellWith self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore RooseveltPainting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador DaliBefore anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham BellIf you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon BonaparteThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinI love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.
Beyonce KnowlesI wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.
Beyonce KnowlesMany are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo da VinciIf 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.
Robert KiyosakiThe child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinIf you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce LeeCreative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.
Jim CarreyWhen something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Elon MuskIn the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.
Robert GreeneI like to be creative.
RihannaEvery time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
Jackie ChanI try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image.
DrakeMusic will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Dave GrohlTo excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.
Stephen CurryI have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
Karl LagerfeldWe learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.
Michelle ObamaI always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.
Nipsey HussleWhat one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThere weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.
Dave GrohlWhen I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
Ernest HemingwayQuality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John RuskinI’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
Robert KiyosakiI write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor SwiftThe closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis PresleyIf it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe RuthSuccess is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
Audrey HepburnI’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.
Conor McGregorPainting, I think it’s like jazz.
Brian EnoI’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.
Brian EnoNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. WashingtonO! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William ShakespeareThe successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale CarnegieThe answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.
Ray BradburyI think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘
Brian EnoAlmost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki MurakamiA lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
George LucasWith me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan PoeIf you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.
David GogginsOne must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWriting a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.
Billie EilishSometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.
John KennedyI think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor SwiftI’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.
Taylor SwiftYou can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainBad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles BukowskiWell done is better than well said.
Benjamin FranklinMy goal is to entertain myself and others.
Ray BradburyThere were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
DrakeGetting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.
Robert KiyosakiThe only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Bill GatesI believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Bill GatesThe things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.
Robert Greene