The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Never complain and never explain.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

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.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Desire is the essence of a man.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Passions are the gales of life.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.