Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Substitute ‚damn‘ every time you’re inclined to write ‚very‘; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Nothing recedes like progress.

I think we’re having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we’re always trying to do better.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

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