Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Losing is tough.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.