Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I worked my face off.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

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.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

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.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

I like to work.

See, winners embrace hard work.

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 mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

I believe in singing.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Football is unconditional love.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

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.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.