My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

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

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

I’m very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.

I do my job like I breathe.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Lost time is never found again.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.