Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

Action expresses priorities.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

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.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

There are times when I feel like I’m a traveling minister. I’m trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

Dream and you shall become.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

You can stroke people with words.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.