If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

America is another name for opportunity.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.