I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.