The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

One man with courage is a majority.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.