My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

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

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.